noun : DEFICIT
Source: WordNet 3.1
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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" ;
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2. (
) a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits" ;
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3. (
) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing ;
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4. (
) an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit" ;
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