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