noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a budget deficit (=when a government has spent more money than it has)
▪ The country has a budget deficit of over $4 billion.
a trade deficit (=the amount by which the total goods one country sells to others is less than the amount it buys from them)
▪ The foreign trade deficit widened by 42% compared with the previous year.
trade deficit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ This will include both initial restoration work and the annual deficit on running the house and opening it to the public.
▪ Our annual deficit this year is expected to be more than $ 120 billion.
▪ In 1829 a Royal Commission of Enquiry, appointed because of recurrent annual deficits, began an investigation of the colony's affairs.
▪ An agreement is expected to send bond yields lower by curbing the supply of securities the Treasury sells to finance annual deficits.
▪ With most of its boards now running annual deficits, it is thought tough cost-cutting steps may be taken.
▪ Strong consumer demand for imports should push the annual trade deficit in goods alone to $ 165. 3 billion.
big
▪ How many hospitals, such as Watford, have big deficits?
current
▪ In the long run, persistent current account deficits are difficult and costly to sustain and are damaging to an economy.
▪ For a current account deficit on the balance of payments reflects a shortage of national savings, in relation to investment.
▪ The truth of the matter is that the current account deficit is a touchstone for the success of the Thatcher revolution.
▪ Mr Lawson is in danger of striking the market as complacent about the current account deficit.
▪ Here we have an economy that is running a current account deficit of 4 % a year.
▪ With the United States running a current account deficit of staggering dimensions, the most likely candidate is not hard to spot.
federal
▪ The federal deficit is at a 23-year low.
▪ Because the rest of the government borrows from it, it masks the size of the federal deficit.
▪ Dole, by contrast, did best among voters who listed the federal deficit as their chief concern.
▪ Though sharply reduced in the last couple of years, federal budget deficits continue.
▪ But Clinton showed that hundreds of federal programs will be on a strict diet during the struggle to eliminate the federal deficit.
▪ As we will discover in Chapter 15, in recent years large Federal deficits have caused the public debt to rise sharply.
▪ Dole was largely supported by older and wealthier voters, who said the federal budget deficit was their top concern.
▪ The Act would have forced across-the-board cutbacks if the federal deficit grew too high.
fiscal
▪ The new measures would effectively add some 4,050 million rupees to the fiscal deficit.
▪ The new government got this year's budget through the opposition-controlled Congress only by agreeing to increase the fiscal deficit.
▪ A rising inflationary trend and a persistent fiscal deficit during 1990 were exacerbated by the continuing civil war and rising petrol prices.
▪ On Sept. 15 the government raised petroleum prices by 18 percent in an attempt to reduce the fiscal deficit.
▪ They agreed that countries with fiscal and current-account deficits should reduce budget deficits and increase private savings.
▪ I am delighted to see that he has also dissociated us from the objectionable features of article 104B regarding fiscal deficits.
huge
▪ The Treasury had run up a huge deficit.
▪ State education spending began to drop under the Dukakis administration in 1988, when huge budget deficits caused cutbacks across the board.
▪ But it already has a large current account deficit and a huge household sector deficit.
▪ Taxes soared as the government tried to cover the huge deficits its own policies had created.
▪ But only about 2000 donor hearts become available, leaving a huge deficit.
▪ The center chalked up a huge deficit last year after falling short on fund raising and ticket sales.
large
▪ Yet shrinking economies mean falling tax revenues and so larger budget deficits and more government debt.
▪ Indeed, we have had large trade deficits for the last I 2 years.
▪ Today, with highly mobile international capital, large deficits can be sustained for much longer.
▪ As we will discover in Chapter 15, in recent years large Federal deficits have caused the public debt to rise sharply.
▪ Thanks to the interim school-financing plan, North Forest is not burdened by a large deficit.
▪ They have demanded provisions for imposing fines on countries with large deficits after the euro is created.
▪ Following a large budget deficit in 1990 the Minister of Finance and Commerce announced plans to reduce public spending.
▪ It had eliminated the large budget deficits of the early 1980s and was in fiscal balance.
overall
▪ Despite the increase in exports, the overall trade deficit rose S$4,900 million to S$14,600 million in 1990.
▪ The main cause of inflation was the overall public-sector budget deficit.
projected
▪ Tax increases were introduced on a wide range of goods and services to help alleviate the projected budget deficit.
▪ The projected deficit reduction depended on government revenue rising 22 percent in 1989, and on spending increasing by only 15 percent.
▪ Revenue was increased from 16,000 million rials in 1989, but the projected deficit was nevertheless up by 10 percent.
public
▪ The size of the public sector deficit is one of them, the unemployment rate is not.
▪ Candidates for a single currency must limit their public deficits to 3 percent of gross domestic product by the end of 1997.
▪ In 1994, the public deficit represented 6 percent of national output.
▪ Tietmeyer said continued reduction in the public deficit is another plank of reducing long-term inflationary pressures.
▪ The Juppe government has, however, convinced the bank that it is serious about lowering the public deficit.
small
▪ With the economy growing so quickly, there is a case for a smaller deficit or for a surplus.
▪ But smaller deficits brought on either by spending cuts or higher taxes reduce purchasing power.
▪ A slightly smaller deficit was budgeted for 1990.
■ NOUN
account
▪ Second, it attracts hot money into the country to finance the current account deficit because investors perceive no currency risk.
▪ In the long run, persistent current account deficits are difficult and costly to sustain and are damaging to an economy.
▪ Mr Lawson is in danger of striking the market as complacent about the current account deficit.
▪ In the long run the dollar must continually fall until the current account deficit has been eliminated.
▪ Here we have an economy that is running a current account deficit of 4 % a year.
▪ The current account deficit has steadily expanded since August, when it narrowed to A $ 1. 4 billion.
attention
▪ Other terms used for this collection of symptoms are minimal brain dysfunction and attention deficit disorder.
▪ Of the work-inhibited students, is it possible that this attention deficit may be related to their difficulty in completing assignments?
▪ If an attention deficit is suspected as the cause of academic and / or social problems, an evaluation should be conducted.
▪ What might be asked of the teacher and parents to determine if an attention deficit exists?
▪ And they gave him every diagnosis-from sociopathy to thought disorder, attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder.
▪ Coaches are always yelling at referees, remarking on their visual impairments and attention deficit disorders.
▪ Does he have a subtle learning disability, an attention deficit, or some type of physical or neurological problem?
▪ And if there seems to be no improvement at all, consider attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
budget
▪ Otherwise Congress would have to face the consequences of automatic across-the-board cuts under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget deficit reduction law.
▪ It runs counter to his career-long concern with budget deficits.
▪ The government devalued last year but has remained under pressure for its failure to cut the budget deficit.
▪ Hernández Colón stated that the budget deficit for 1990 was an estimated US$200 million.
▪ But that raises a new problem: the federal budget deficit.
▪ But Mr Clinton will win plaudits from most economists if he carries through plans to cut the budget deficit.
▪ With anticipated revenue of taka105,500 million, the budget deficit would be taka77,300 million.
disorder
▪ Other terms used for this collection of symptoms are minimal brain dysfunction and attention deficit disorder.
▪ And they gave him every diagnosis-from sociopathy to thought disorder, attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder.
▪ Coaches are always yelling at referees, remarking on their visual impairments and attention deficit disorders.
reduction
▪ Otherwise Congress would have to face the consequences of automatic across-the-board cuts under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget deficit reduction law.
▪ Although money is technically building up in the trust funds, a portion often is withheld as a part of deficit reduction.
▪ But the public is persuaded that deficit reduction comes first, which spells austerity for science and much else.
▪ Bonds began falling late yesterday after talks aimed at crafting a seven-year deficit reduction plan broke off.
trade
▪ A not insignificant dent in our trade deficit, and a loss to the Inland Revenue.
▪ Figure 8-1 shows the size of the merchandise trade deficit.
▪ A trade deficit in manufactured goods, unthinkable until recent times, has become normal.
▪ In 1996, the trade deficit hit $ 39. 5 billion.
▪ The double digit inflation and growing trade deficit were the government's most difficult economic problems.
▪ While accounting identities always hold, they say nothing about bilateral trade deficits or surpluses.
▪ Despite the increase in exports, the overall trade deficit rose S$4,900 million to S$14,600 million in 1990.
▪ Ironically, they are as much products of the context as the trade deficit and merger mania are.
■ VERB
cover
▪ Public enterprises run little risk of bankruptcy, and if targets are not met, governments usually step in to cover deficits.
▪ Deficits questioned Kaplan also objects to endowment funds being used to cover operating deficits.
▪ It would also cover a deficit of about $ 45, 000.
▪ The provinces needed to sell shares to raise money to cover budget deficits, traders said.
▪ Taxes soared as the government tried to cover the huge deficits its own policies had created.
cut
▪ Galley cut the deficit in half at 7: 13 on their third power play.
▪ Boston cut the deficit to 3-1 when right wing Sandy Moger scored on the power play for his sixth goal.
▪ Allcock scored a four to cut the deficit to 11-6.
▪ He hit four in consecutive possessions to cut the deficit to 91-81 with 6: 23 left.
▪ But Humphreys cut the deficit with a soaring penalty.
▪ The hike was expected to cut the deficit by $ 275 billion over five years.
▪ The government devalued last year but has remained under pressure for its failure to cut the budget deficit.
▪ How can Republicans be angry because Clinton cut the deficit in half?
cutting
▪ Clinton was cutting the budget deficit.
▪ His own party has its doubts; congressional Democrats may not accept his plans for cutting the deficit.
▪ He is thought to be a man who is going to increase taxes, not one who is cutting the deficit.
eliminate
▪ But Clinton showed that hundreds of federal programs will be on a strict diet during the struggle to eliminate the federal deficit.
▪ It had eliminated the large budget deficits of the early 1980s and was in fiscal balance.
▪ But, ah, what might have been, if we did not have this political fixation on reducing or eliminating deficits.
▪ They are divided for months over how to eliminate the budget deficit.
▪ But he has not specified which government programs would be reduced to pay for the tax cuts and eliminate the deficit.
▪ But pressure to eliminate the budget deficit, said Vest, is likely to lead to diminished help from Washington.
▪ Most money managers are convinced President Clinton and congressional Republicans will strike a deal to eliminate the federal budget deficit.
expect
▪ Next year, before privatisation receipts, the Red Book expects the Budget deficit to be £38 billion.
▪ Including the expected 1995 deficit, Olivetti has lost 1. 8 trillion lire of investors' money.
▪ The hike was expected to cut the deficit by $ 275 billion over five years.
face
▪ It is facing a £40m deficit by the end of March.
▪ A lesser squad, after three earlier defeats, would have crumbled facing an 18-4 deficit.
▪ For the first time since the mid-1960s, Bonn faced a trade deficit.
▪ The party, facing a deficit of £1.3million, must cut costs by 30 percent in the next financial year.
finance
▪ Whenever the government runs a budget deficit, it will have to finance that deficit by borrowing.
▪ An agreement is expected to send bond yields lower by curbing the supply of securities the Treasury sells to finance annual deficits.
▪ Second, it attracts hot money into the country to finance the current account deficit because investors perceive no currency risk.
▪ According to Cadilhe, the then Finance Minister, the deficit was entirely explicable in terms of the need to meet interest payments.
▪ At some point the United States will lose its ability to finance its trade deficit.
▪ This was partly because the increasing integration of world capital markets has made it easier to finance current-account deficits.
▪ In future they would no longer be allowed to finance public-sector deficits or loan applications from large debtors.
grow
▪ I see a growing trade deficit and a reliance on overseas sources of innovation.
help
▪ They say it would be an inexpensive way to help slash the budget deficit.
▪ Nor do they point out that the tax increase helped reduce the deficit.
increase
▪ The new government got this year's budget through the opposition-controlled Congress only by agreeing to increase the fiscal deficit.
▪ How could the federal government make up the revenue drain that would result to avoid raising other taxes or increasing the deficit?
▪ The increased deficit is to be financed by borrowing on the domestic market, largely from the domestic banking system.
produce
▪ Puerto Rico produced an increased deficit for the year despite a good profit in the fourth quarter.
▪ Deep tax cuts enacted in 1981, as the supply siders had demanded, only produced soaring federal deficits.
project
▪ The president began with a budget that projected deficits of $ 200 billion through the end of the decade.
reduce
▪ Even Sam Smith's valiant attempts to reduce the deficit came to nothing.
▪ Nor do they point out that the tax increase helped reduce the deficit.
▪ A left footed shot by Keys increased the lead before Fenwick reduced the deficit by converting Pratt's cross.
▪ As for this year, one-time items will reduce the 1996 budget deficit.
▪ New medium-term targets aimed at progressively reducing the public-sector deficit over the following three years were also adopted.
▪ The higher price would encourage badly needed conservation; the revenues would meanwhile serve to reduce the deficit.
▪ Before the referendum, the chances of the government doing anything decisive to reduce the deficit were shrinking fast.
▪ But, ah, what might have been, if we did not have this political fixation on reducing or eliminating deficits.
run
▪ Whenever the government runs a budget deficit, it will have to finance that deficit by borrowing.
▪ Neza was essentially run on deficit financing, said Treasurer Soledad Patino.
▪ The idea proved such a success that the Government ran up a considerable deficit on the scheme.
▪ When the federal government runs a deficit, it borrows the extra money by selling more Treasury bonds to the public.
▪ Here we have an economy that is running a current account deficit of 4 % a year.
▪ Another friction point is the red-ink state budget, which has been running a deficit of several billion dollars.
▪ With the United States running a current account deficit of staggering dimensions, the most likely candidate is not hard to spot.
▪ Paris also wants the freedom to run deficits when this is the best way to fight unemployment.
show
▪ The trade balance in 1989 showed a deficit of US$282,000,000.
▪ Commerce Department figures released last week show the deficit jumped 65 percent, compared with 1998.
▪ The balance of trade showed a deficit in 1988 of US$699,300,000.
▪ United States trade figures for the second quarter of 1971 showed a deficit for the first time.
▪ The revised budget for 1989/90 showed a deficit of 1,367 million kyats, compared with the planned surplus of 7,000,000 kyats.
▪ Figures show an operating deficit of £336,203.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Chargers overcame a 13-point deficit to win 38-30.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But a spiraling deficit and weakened franc forced him to adopt austerity policies in 1983.
▪ Dole himself voted for tax hikes in 1982 and 1990 to reduce the deficit.
▪ If government does nothing, deficits expand rapidly.
▪ Quinn explains that spending on roads and other infrastructure accounts for most of the deficit.
▪ The balances on their operating statements can not be called profits or losses, rather they are called surpluses or deficits.
▪ The campaign also argues that Britain's trade deficit is unsustainable.
▪ These are the arctic fox and hen harrier assemblages, and there are three factors that suggest this deficit may be significant.