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budget deficit

n. an excess of expenditures over revenues

Usage examples of "budget deficit".

I found that very few Americans believed Clinton when he said he had cut the budget deficit or created lots of new jobs.

As if the welfare mothers had caused the savings and loan crisis, the budget deficit, the decline of the schools, and El Nino all at once.

We had the A-12 sold to the Senate and the House committees until Athena came along, but with the headlines lately-and the budget deficit-any way they can save money looks better and better.

It's a chimera, like Y2K, and while you're running after it, you aren't helping reduce the budget deficit or sire a family, and that's what I care about.

We were in trouble to start with, and it was all over when Mondale said he would propose a hefty tax increase to reduce the budget deficit.

The federal budget deficit means that every time you borrow money, it costs more than it should--why?

The federal budget deficit means that every time you borrow money, it costs more than it should—.

To begin with, the Understanding required Argentina cut the government budget deficit from US$5.

In all cases, London rules with a fairly light hand, its principal role in the case of the last three territories being to pick up the annual budget deficit.