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Example sentences for "deficit"

Lexicographically close words:
defibrinated; deficiences; deficiencies; deficiency; deficient; deficits; defie; defied; defies; defile
  1. Then there was an exportation of domestic products, and the filling up of this deficit by importation from abroad, mainly from the United States.

  2. The result is that the new war taxes of France were only just about sufficient to make up the deficit on the ordinary peace budget--a deficit caused chiefly by the devastation of the occupied territory.

  3. East Prussia will be required to bear such proportion of any deficit as may be fixed by the principal Allied and Associated Powers.

  4. A fuel deficit can be averted only by the most intensive conservation.

  5. Net revenue may also be increased or a deficit changed to a surplus by deducting the expenditure for sites, buildings, and extensions from ordinary expenditure.

  6. Certain deductions were made from the sum total of rent due, on account of the loss to the farmer from the activity of the interlopers, and the deficit was ordered to be made up from some other branch of the royal revenue.

  7. In conclusion he gravely referred to the alarming deficit in the French exchequer as the strongest of all arguments against incurring the heavy charge of a war not absolutely unavoidable.

  8. The Moniteur, as well as the ambassador, admitted that by the end of the first seven years the finances had nearly reached an equilibrium, the deficit at that time being only half a million of dollars.

  9. I have had the honor recently of pointing out to your Excellency, that the deficit of 1857 has been reduced to an insignificant sum, consisting for the most part of unexpected expenses, and of money reserved for the extinction of the debt.

  10. He will make up the deficit in the hospitals.

  11. But Grenoble having grown since then, the deficit for this year was something under two thousand dollars, and in a lower corner was a request that contributions be sent to Mrs. Israel Simpson.

  12. There was a small deficit which he volunteered to make good, but this offer was declined, and a banquet was given to him by his colleagues as an expression of their appreciation of his services.

  13. At the present time there exists a deficit in the wheat area of thirty-one thousand square miles.

  14. Wiping Out a Deficit by Issue of Debentures.

  15. He was chairman of the Board of Stewards in the Jordantown church, and he was making a rapid mental calculation of the deficit that was likely to occur.

  16. The reason of the deficit in the receipts was doubtless the quartering of Russian troops in the neighbourhood, which kept both the town and country residents from attending the festival.

  17. An instance of this was published in a Charleston advertisement of 1800 announcing the auction of a young carpenter and saying as the reason of the sale that he had absconded because of a deficit in his wages.

  18. Of course there is a deficit to be made up.

  19. State organ, the Suffragist, for five years, supplying the deficit from his own pocket.

  20. Miss Margaret Haley and Miss Catharine Goggin, obtained information that the reason of the deficit was that some of the largest corporations in the State were not assessed for taxes.

  21. The bulk of meat, vegetable, and grain requirements must be imported, contributing to a chronic trade deficit that requires large annual transfers of aid from France.

  22. The government continues to grapple with its large deficit and massive internal debt and with the need to modernize the state-owned electricity and telecommunications sector.

  23. In 2000, Austria moved to further cut government spending and raise taxes to meet EMU deficit targets after facing unexpected difficulties in reducing the public deficit.

  24. On the minus side, public sector wage increases and regional peacekeeping commitments have led to continued inflationary deficit financing, depreciation of the cedi, and rising public discontent with Ghana's austerity measures.

  25. Major short-term concerns are the rising fiscal deficit and the deterioration in the external account balance.

  26. Riyadh expects to have a moderate budget deficit in 2001, in part because of increased spending for education and other social programs.

  27. Annual inflation has been pushed down to 2%, and the fiscal deficit has been cut to less than 1.

  28. Improving Poland's outsized current account deficit and reining in inflation are priorities.

  29. The government sought to cover this deficit through monetary expansion, which led to a dramatic increase in inflation and exchange rate depreciation.

  30. Other issues facing the government are the curbing of the budget deficit and further privatization of public enterprises.

  31. The trade deficit has been offset by remittances (an estimated $1.

  32. The trade deficit has been growing, mostly as a result of low export prices for sugar and bananas.

  33. At nine o'clock to-morrow morning that deficit would begin to pile up again at the rate of five thousand dollars an hour.

  34. The budget deficit is expected to hit a record 8% of GDP because of welfare spending and bail-outs of the banking system.

  35. The government in 1990 was attempting to get the budget deficit under control and, in general, to bring economic policy in line with the recommendations of the IMF and the World Bank.

  36. In 1993, the government will struggle to win legislative approval for faster privatization and to keep the budget deficit within IMF-approved limits.

  37. As a result, in 1992, focusing attention on slowing the growth rate of inflation and reducing the deficit is leading to a slow-down in growth.

  38. To curb the budget deficit and bolster confidence in the economy, BILDT continues to propose cuts in welfare benefits, subsidies, defense, and foreign aid.

  39. The huge public sector deficit - about 12% of GDP - and the Treasury's heavy reliance on Central Bank financing of the deficit are the major causes of Turkish inflation.

  40. Public investment has been limited as the administration has kept the fiscal deficit below 3% of GDP.

  41. If there is a bad harvest the deficit must somehow be made up; and as Argentina has not as yet saved enough capital to allow her to live on her own reserve funds, it is at such times that a loan becomes necessary.

  42. The parchments were safe, the deficit made up.

  43. He had become aware that the expenditure of the last year had exceeded the income, and that the income of the next year gave no promise of balancing the existing deficit of two thousand dollars.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deficit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absence; arrears; balance; beggary; break; credit; debt; decline; defalcation; default; defect; deficiency; deficit; delinquency; deprivation; destitution; difference; discontinuity; discrepancy; drought; failure; famine; gap; hiatus; imperfection; inadequacy; incompleteness; inferiority; insubstantial; insufficiency; interval; lack; lacuna; need; net; omission; overdraft; remainder; scantiness; shortage; shortcoming; slump; starvation; surplus; want