That more was spent than was earned
Marriam-webster.com defines deficit in this way: "deficency in amount or quality, a lack or imparement in functional capacity, and disadvantage." Basically to have a deficit means to have less than you need.
Fluid Volume Deficit
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I think you mean Attention Deficit Disorder(ADD), if you don't mean Attention Deficit Disorder then you should go into more detail so another contributor can tell you the right answer.
A deficit is a shortage. Similar to anaccount that is overdrawn. in other words you are spending money that does in reality not exist yet. Deficit spending is spending money you don't own in other words borrowed money. A deficit, or deficit financing, is what happens when the government spends more money than it takes in from taxes. Deficit spending can be accomplished by borrowing or simply by printing more money. Deficit is a lack or shortage... When governments say that there is a deficit, they mean that they are unable to come up with the required amount of money needed to run the country.
When a government's total expenditures exceed the revenue that it generates (excluding money from borrowings). Deficit differs from debt, which is an accumulation of yearly deficits.
for a sum to fall short
On a balance sheet, Members' Deficit indicates that there is a lack of equity for the company's capital investors. Usually this account would be known as members' equity, but because the said equity is negative there exist instead a deficit.
nominal deficit is the deficit determined by looking at the difference between expenditures and receipts.real deficit: nominal deficit - (inflation x total debt)
it mean a country is basically i debt and losses money.
An example of using the noun, deficit, is: "an annual operating deficit."