| 单词 | deficit |
| 释义 | deficit (once / 340 pages) n If you're running a deficit, you are losing. You might be losing money or losing a game. Either way, you better make up for it. When the government runs on a deficit, often the loss can be offset by a raise in taxes. If you have a deficit of iron in your body, you should consider eating more spinach. The word deficit comes from the Latin deficit meaning "it is wanting." A deficit is characterized by the wanting of something missing. WORD FAMILYdeficit: deficits USAGE EXAMPLESNorth Carolina twice cut the deficit back to single digits down the stretch but got no closer than seven. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) “The unemployment rate is distressing; the impoverishment of the population is palpable everywhere; our social protection system is in deficit and is in peril.” The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) The deficit was “no big deal,” Harriott assured his guys, but they’d win only if they played as a team. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1n the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit Syn|Hypo|Hyper shortage, shortfall oxygen deficit temporary oxygen shortage in cells resulting from strenuous exercise deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency lack of an adequate quantity or number 2n an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period) last year there was a serious budgetary deficit Hypo|Hyper budget deficit an excess of expenditures over revenues trade deficitan excess of imports over exports federal deficitan excess of the federal government's spending over its revenue liabilities anything that is owed to someone else 3n a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory they have serious linguistic deficits Hyper deficiency, lack, want the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable 4n (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing Ant|Hyper lead (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning score a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest |
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