deficit
Nouns
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(n) 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
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(n) a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning
- the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory
- they have serious linguistic deficits
- (n) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
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(n) an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)
- last year there was a serious budgetary deficit