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Meaning of deficit

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  deficit
      n 1: 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: {deficit}, {shortage}, {shortfall}]
      2: a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental
         functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal
         memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits"
      3: (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
         [ant: {lead}]
      4: an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain
         period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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