Deficit

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deficit \Def"i*cit\, n. [Lit., it is wanting, 3d person pres.
     indic. of L. deficere, cf. F. d['e]ficit. See {Defect}.]
     Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a
     deficit in taxes, revenue, etc. --Addison.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deficit
       n 1: the property of being an amount by which something is less
            than expected or required [syn: {shortage}, {shortfall}]
       2: an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain
          period)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "deficit":
     absence, arrear, arrearage, arrears, back debts, back payments,
     balance, beggary, bouncing check, break, credit, decline,
     defalcation, default, defect, defectiveness, deferred payments,
     deficiency, deficit financing, delinquency, deprivation,
     destitution, difference, discontinuity, discrepancy, dollar gap,
     drought, epact, failure, falling short, famine, gap, hiatus,
     imperfection, impoverishment, inadequacy, incompleteness,
     inferiority, insufficiency, interval, lack, lacuna, loss,
     missing link, need, net, omission, outage, overdraft, remainder,
     scantiness, short measure, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, slump,
     starvation, surplus, ullage, underage, want, wantage
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DEFICIT. This Latin term signifies that something is wanting. It is used to 
  express the deficiency which is discovered in the accounts of an accountant, 
  or in the money in which he has received.