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noun

(especially of a government) expenditures in excess of public revenues, made possible typically by borrowing.

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deficiency judgment, deficiency symptom, deficient, deficient number, deficit, deficit financing, deficit spending, de fide, defier, defilade, defile

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How to use deficit financing in a sentence

“ADD [Attention Deficit Disorder] is just a euphemistic way of saying, ‘I have limits,’” Brown writes.
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This represents major progress in reducing conflict financing.
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All of these changes to college financing occurred at exactly the time when college education became a necessity.
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In the financing portion, the numbers are particularly bleak.
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The tracker focuses on three specific forms of support: financing, health-care personnel, and in-kind contributions.
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Berlin was equally cut off from competition, for Berlin had to devote herself to the task of financing war for Germany.
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If she was not in a position to finance other countries, she did make a beginning in financing her own imports.
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Any delay in covering such deficit shall be subject to such charge as the Federal Reserve Board may impose.
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The purchaser bought supposing that there was no such deficit, but perhaps a small one, what would a court do?
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But we can hire the old hall, and all the men will be glad to subscribe—a few of us can make up the deficit.
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British Dictionary definitions for deficit financing

deficit financing

noun

government spending in excess of revenues so that a budget deficit is incurred, which is financed by borrowing: recommended by Keynesian economists in order to increase economic activity and reduce unemploymentAlso called: compensatory finance, pump priming

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Cultural definitions for deficit financing

deficit financing

A government policy of financing large public expenditures by borrowing money rather than by raising taxes; also called deficit spending.

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