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FEDERAL DEFICIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does federal deficit mean? 

FEDERAL DEFICIT (noun)
  The noun FEDERAL DEFICIT has 1 sense:

1. an excess of the federal government's spending over its revenueplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FEDERAL DEFICIT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An excess of the federal government's spending over its revenue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

federal deficits can cause inflation

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

budget deficit (an excess of expenditures over revenues)


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