deficit

英 [ˈdefɪsɪt]

美 [ˈdefɪsɪt]

n.  赤字; 逆差; 亏损; 不足额; 缺款额; 缺少

复数：deficits　

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牛津词典

noun

• 赤字；逆差；亏损
  the amount by which money spent or owed is greater than money earned in a particular period of time
  1. a budget/trade deficit
     预算赤字；贸易逆差
  2. The trade balance has been in deficit for the past five years.
     过去五年来贸易状况一直是逆差。
• 不足额；缺款额；缺少
  the amount by which sth, especially an amount of money, is too small or smaller than sth else
  1. There's a deficit of $3 million in the total needed to complete the project.
     完成这项工程所需资金中有300万元的亏空。
  2. The team has to come back from a 2–0 deficit in the first half.
     这支队得扳回上半场0:2的落后局面。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 差额;赤字;亏损;逆差
  Adeficitis the amount by which something is less than what is required or expected, especially the amount by which the total money received is less than the total money spent.
  1. They're ready to cut the federal budget deficit for the next fiscal year.
     他们已准备好削减下一财年的联邦预算赤字。
  2. ...a deficit of 3.275 billion francs.
     32.75亿法郎的赤字

英英释义

noun

• the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
  1. new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit
  Synonym:shortageshortfall
• an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)
  1. last year there was a serious budgetary deficit
• (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
• a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning
  1. the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory
  2. they have serious linguistic deficits

双语例句

• Britain's balance of payments deficit has improved slightly.
  英国的国际收支逆差已略有改善。
• They're ready to cut the federal budget deficit for the next fiscal year.
  他们已准备好削减下一财年的联邦预算赤字。
• He made the unfortunate mistake of promising he would quit if the budget deficit was still out of control.
  他犯了个愚蠢的错误，承诺说如果预算赤字还失控，他就辞职。
• I'm not impressed by the promise of tax cuts against the backcloth of a public-spending deficit.
  在公共开支出现赤字的情况下承诺减税让我不以为然。
• The trade deficit is the flip side of a rapidly expanding economy.
  贸易赤字是经济快速发展带来的负面产物。
• We called up three economists to ask how to eliminate the deficit and they obliged with very straightforward answers
  我们打电话给3位经济学家询问如何消除赤字，他们坦率地给予了答复。
• He urged the administration and Congress to come up with a credible package to reduce the budget deficit.
  他敦促政府和国会出台一整套切实可行的方案，以缩减预算赤字。
• By 1973 the government deficit equalled thirty per cent of GNP.
  到1973年，政府财政赤字相当于国民生产总值的30%。
• The deficit is now running at about 300 million dollars a year.
  现在，每年的赤字约达3亿美元。
• Rising budget deficit is beginning to bite.
  预算赤字的不断增加开始产生不良后果。