| 词汇 | deficit |
| 释义 | deficit noun uk /ˈdef.ɪ.sɪt/ us /ˈdef.ə.sɪt/ deficitnoun (MONEY)C1[ C or U ] the total amount by which money spent is more than money received, or the state of having spent more money than has been received: The presidential candidate claims that he can cut the deficit in half within five years. budget deficitWith a budget deficit of nearly £26 billion, the state plans to slash spending on schools and police. deficit ofThe country is running a balance-of-payments deficit of $250 million. deficit inThe UK's deficit in manufactured goods fell slightly in the last three months.在过去的3个月里，英国制造业的亏损略有好转。 What happened to cause this lurch from surplus to deficit? in deficit A third of schools in the county say they are in deficit. See also trade deficit Synonym shortfall Opposite surplus There are many priorities, but reducing the budget deficit is paramount. The deficit has been rising in recent years because of a drop in earnings from oil, the country's main export. Profits & losses anti-profiteering anti-speculative be a licence to print moneyidiom buoyancy buoyant cash cow deficit in something lose lose your shirtidiom margin muck out-of-pocket pi profit from something profit warning profitability rake-off trade surplus winnings deficitnoun (SCORE)[ C ] the amount by which a team or player is behind in a game or competition: They overcame a two-goal deficit to draw even in the second half. It was the first time in baseball history a team had overcome a three-games-to-none deficit in the World Series. Synonym disadvantage He overturned a 5–2 deficit in the final set to win the match. By late in the first half United were staring at a seven-goal deficit and almost certain defeat. Winning, losing & scoring in sport aet against the run of playidiom all out blinder blow someone away box score counterattack crash dead heat draw hammering offensively outpoint outrun point-scoring points deduction promedios shutout tank winner deficitnoun (LACK)[ C or U ] medical specialized a temporary or permanent lack in someone's ability to operate normally: deficit inChildren neglected in early life are likely to exhibit deficits in psychosocial functioning. cognitive deficitThe disease results in increasing levels of cognitive deficit. Air pollution has been associated with lung function deficits in children. See also neurological deficit Lacking things bankrupt bankruptcy be hard up (for something)idiom bereft chronic disease if it wasn't/weren't forphrase in someone's hour of needidiom inappeasable lack lacking minus scrape scream scream (out) for somethingidiom shortage shy skimpily starve someone/something of something starved taken deficit | American Dictionarydeficit noun[ C ] us/ˈdef·ə·sət/ the amount by which money spent is more than money received: The theater has been operating at a deficit of over $150,000 a year. deficit | Business Englishdeficit noun[ C ] uk /ˈdefɪsɪt/us ECONOMICS, FINANCE the total amount by which money spent by a business or government is more than the money it receives: a deficit of £10 million/$1 billion, etc. The two companies between them have reported a deficit of nearly $14bn. have/run/show a deficitAbout a third of the nation's non-profit arts presenters run a large deficit each year, according to Charity Navigator. reduce/cut a deficit federal/government/public deficit The US balance of payments deficit was running at over 4% of gross domestic product. the amount by which something, especially an amount of money, is smaller than it should be: a pension/pension fund deficit a deficit in sthThe company reported that an estimated $31.5 million deficit in this year's operating budget would end up at about $20 million as a result of savings. There is a deficit of trust between the customer and the banks, which yesterday's headline figure will do little to dispel. Compare surplus in deficit used to describe a situation when a business or country has spent more money than it has received, or an amount of money is smaller than it should be: At the time, the Federal Budget was expected to remain in deficit until at least Fiscal 2011. At their last valuation, almost all council pension funds were in deficit. See alsobudget deficit current account deficit external deficit trade deficit Examples of deficitdeficit The cooling paradigm also permitted rapid reversal and repeated demonstration of deficits in the same testing session. In practice the pace of expenditure and deficit reduction was in advance of that planned and as a consequence tax relaxation was possible. If the results indicate neither memory nor symbolic play deficits, then further consideration of the executive dysfunction hypothesis is warranted. The answer should provide an evaluation of the role of memory in the symbolic deficits found in children with autism. At the physiological level, both depressive symptoms and deficits in deep memory processes may be associated with decreased prefrontal metabolism. That is, they reflect a primary deficit, not secondary to other aspects of the illness (clinical symptoms) or other treatment-related factors (medication effects). In short, early damage to the left (or right) hemisphere when there is normal plasticity tends to lead to recovery with no longlasting gross deficits. This overvalued the currency, causing an increase in imports and thus a current-account deficit. However, what ultimately is required here is a demonstration of localized damage correlated with modality-specific deficits. In this study it is unclear whether marital violence, family upheaval, or homelessness accounts for the observed deficits in children's social competence. However, it was unclear how these deficits would manifest with increasing child age. However, the exact relationship of these cognitive deficits to catatonic symptoms remains unclear. A precise mechanism and pathophysiology, which could account for this pure deficit, is however, elusive. One child, for example, may have a core deficit in phonological awareness but strong listening comprehension and oral vocabulary. But, in fact, his input and output deficits match one another very precisely, suggesting a deficit in underlying competence. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withdeficitdeficitThese are words often used in combination with deficit. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. annual deficit We could still be left with an annualdeficit of about £16 billion over the next four or five years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 attention deficit disorder A recent study was conducted with adults who suffer from attention deficitdisorder. cognitive deficit In contrast, lexical memory and hearing appear to be relatively spared, and there is no convincing evidence for a general cognitivedeficit. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with deficit |
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