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

• The company had a deficit of$ 3000.
  这家公司亏空3000美元。
• 100,000 federal workers will be laid off to reduce the deficit
  10万联邦公务人员将被辞退以减少赤字。
• Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a$ 24m profit had turned into a$ 20m deficit.
  去年10月，由于对2,400万美元的利润变成了2,000万的亏损感到担心，这家银行畏缩了。
• 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。
• President Bush has ended the stalemate over moves to cut the country's budget deficit
  布什总统已结束了在削减国家预算赤字的措施上形成的僵局。
• The United States Congress and the President are still locked in disagreement over proposals to reduce the massive budget deficit
  美国国会和总统就削减巨额预算赤字的提案仍持不同意见，双方僵持不下。
• We have a great deficit this year.
  我们今年有很大亏损。
• The deficit in Britain's balance of trade in March rose to more than 2100 million pounds.
  英国3月份的贸易逆差已经增长到21亿英镑以上。
• 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。
• 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%。