DEFICITS - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Simple definitions and word synonyms for kids.

Part of speech: Noun

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

Example: last year there was a serious budgetary deficit

Part of speech: Noun

(sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing

Part of speech: Noun

a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning

Example: the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory; they have serious linguistic deficits

Part of speech: Noun

the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

Example: new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit