- deficit
- nounADJECTIVE▪ enormous, huge, large, massive, serious, substantial▪ ballooning, exploding, growing, soaring▪ small▪ net, overall▪ projected▪ balance-of-payments, budget, current-account, federal, financial, fiscal, trade▪ national▪ attention, cognitive, neurological▪
attention deficit disorder
▪His teacher thought he had some sort of cognitive deficit.
VERB + DEFICIT▪ face, have, run, show▪If the government didn't run such huge deficits, the country would not have financial problems.
▪The trade balance shows a deficit of two million dollars.
▪ go into, move into, run up, slip into▪to prevent the country from moving into deficit
▪The company has run up a deficit of £30 000.
▪ increase, widen▪ address, tackle▪ cut, halve, narrow, reduce, shrink▪You cannot cut a budget deficit simply by raising taxes.
▪ correct, eliminate, erase, make up, wipe out▪We will find it hard to make up this deficit.
▪ overcome▪ overturn (BrE, sports)▪United are hoping to overturn a two-goal deficit from the first leg.
▪ finance, fund▪The government was forced to sell state-owned companies to fund the budget deficit.
DEFICIT + VERB▪ run at sth▪a budget deficit running at 7% of GDP
▪ grow, increase, rise, widen▪ balloon, soar▪The US trade deficit ballooned to a record $167 billion.
▪ decrease, fall, narrow, shrinkPREPOSITION▪ in deficit▪The UK remained in deficit with all countries outside the EU.
▪ deficit with▪the US trade deficit with Japan
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
