deficit

deficit is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.
2. noun. 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"

   Synonyms: shortage, shortfall

3. noun. an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)

   "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"

4. noun. (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
5. noun. a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning

   "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"

   "they have serious linguistic deficits"

Synonyms

shortage, shortfall

Common word forms

deficits

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