BUDGET DEFICIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does budget deficit mean? 

• BUDGET DEFICIT (noun)
  The noun BUDGET DEFICIT has 1 sense:

1. an excess of expenditures over revenues

  Familiarity information: BUDGET DEFICIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUDGET DEFICIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An excess of expenditures over revenues

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("budget deficit" is a kind of...):

deficit (an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "budget deficit"):

federal deficit (an excess of the federal government's spending over its revenue)