Usually means: Shortfall in revenue versus expenses.
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  1. deficit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. deficit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deficit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deficit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deficit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deficit, deficit: Wordnik
  7. deficit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deficit: Wiktionary
  9. deficit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deficit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deficit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deficit: Dictionary.com
  13. deficit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. deficit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Deficit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Deficit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. deficit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. deficit: Rhymezone
  19. deficit, deficit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. deficit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. deficit: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. deficit: Free Dictionary
  23. deficit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. deficit: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. deficit: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. Deficit: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. deficit: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. deficit: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. DEFICIT: Accounting Glossary
  7. Deficit: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  8. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Terms related to the Federal Reserve, banking and economics (No longer online)
  10. Deficit: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  11. Deficit: Glossary of Military Spending
  12. Deficit: Inflation Glossary
  13. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  14. Deficit: Investopedia
  15. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  16. deficit: Legal dictionary
  17. Deficit: Financial dictionary
  18. Deficit (accounting), Deficit (economics): Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  19. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deficit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. deficit: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
noun:  A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds (e.g. government) revenue.

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