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When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues.
John Caudwell

Meaning of "budget deficit" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BUDGET DEFICIT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BUDGET DEFICIT

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Budget deficit is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BUDGET DEFICIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

budget deficit

Government budget balance

A government budget is a government document presenting the government's proposed revenues and spending for a financial year. The government budget balance, also alternatively referred to as general government balance, public budget balance, or public fiscal balance, is the overall difference between government revenues and spending. A positive balance is called a government budget surplus, and a negative balance is a government budget deficit. A budget is prepared for each level of government and takes into account public social security obligations. The government budget balance is further differentiated by closely related terms such as primary balance and structural balance of the general government. The primary budget balance equals the government budget balance before interest payments. The structural budget balances attempts to adjust for the impacts of the real GDP changes in the national economy.

Definition of budget deficit in the English dictionary

The definition of budget deficit in the dictionary is the amount by which government expenditure exceeds income from taxation, customs duties, etc, in any one fiscal year.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BUDGET DEFICIT

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WORDS THAT END LIKE BUDGET DEFICIT

balance of payments deficit
budgetary deficit
cash deficit
complicit
deficit
democratic deficit
elicit
explicit
illicit
implicit
inexplicit
licit
overexplicit
solicit
trade deficit

Synonyms and antonyms of budget deficit in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «budget deficit» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BUDGET DEFICIT

Find out the translation of budget deficit to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of budget deficit from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «budget deficit» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

财政赤字
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

déficit presupuestario
570 millions of speakers

English

budget deficit
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बजट घाटा
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

العجز في الميزانية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дефицит бюджета
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

déficit orçamentário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাজেট ঘাটতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déficit budgétaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Defisit bajet
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Haushaltsdefizit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

財政赤字
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

예산 적자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Defisit anggaran
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thâm hụt ngân sách
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பட்ஜெட் பற்றாக்குறை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तुटीचा अर्थसंकल्प
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bütçe açığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

deficit di bilancio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

deficyt budżetowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дефіцит бюджету
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

deficitul bugetar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

έλλειμμα του προϋπολογισμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

begrotingstekort
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

budgetunderskott
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

budsjettunderskudd
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of budget deficit

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BUDGET DEFICIT»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about budget deficit

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4 QUOTES WITH «BUDGET DEFICIT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word budget deficit.
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John Caudwell
When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues.
2
Hamilton Jordan
You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
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Ed Parker
What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.
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Christina Romer
If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BUDGET DEFICIT»

Discover the use of budget deficit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to budget deficit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Red ink: the budget, deficit, and debt of the U.S. government
Clear and practical discussions of taxes, entitlements, welfare, Social Security, Medicare, agricultural subsidies, trust funds, budget enforcement, and the politics of the deficit and deficit-reduction are all included.This is the first ...
Gary R. Evans, 1997
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Macroeconomics
Cyclical Deficit The part ofthe budget deficit that is a result ofa downturn in economic activity. Structural Deficit The part ofthe budget deficit that would exist even ifthe economy were operating at full employment. Public Debt The total amount ...
Roger A. Arnold, 2010
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Budget Deficits and Macroeconomic Policy
This book argues that making the budget deficit a target of policy can make it harder for governments to work towards all the main macroeconomic objectives - low inflation, high employment and the level of net national wealth (including the ...
James Oliver Newton Perkins, 1997
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Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy: K-Z
Patrick Fisher Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.A. INTRODUCTION When Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, the United States had the largest peacetime budget deficit in the nation's history. Although reducing ...
Jack Rabin, 2003
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Is the U.S. Trade Deficit Sustainable?
The final section of the book provides an outlook for the deficit and suggests alternative policy courses for dealing with it." "This book is designed for policymakers and others who are interested in the US role in the world economy.
Catherine L. Mann, 1999
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Economics
Deficit as a Percentage Year Deficit (S billions) of GDP (%) 2012 1,171 7.6 2013 612 3.8 2014 385 2.3 2015 257 1.5 2016 259 1.4 If the government spends more than its tax revenue and thus runs a budget deficit, where does it get the money ...
Roger A. Arnold, 2013
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Intertemporal Excess Burden, Bequest Motives, and the Budget ...
Budget Deficit = Non-monetized Debt Issue + Money Creation The bequest motive theory of budget deficits hinges wholly on the assumption that the deficit is financed by public debt issuance. Therefore, if a country runs a large budget deficit ...
Derek Hung Chiat Chen, 2003
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Reducing the Budget Deficit: Policy Issues
Marc Labonte (au). he federal budget has been in deficit (spending has exceeded revenues) since 2002, but became significantly larger in 2009. That year, the deficit topped $1 trillion for the first time ever, and it is projected to remain above ...
Marc Labonte (au)
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Population Age Structure and the Budget Deficit
Accounting for Money Creation The budget deficit can be defined as the sum of the different ways in which it can be financed. Typically, budget deficits can be financed either by borrowing from the public or by seigniorage13, which implies that ...
Derek Hung Chiat Chen, 2004
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Fiscal Deficit of States in India
The Various Articles Published In This Book Have Been Written By Various Economists Working In The Various Universities And Research Institutes In Their Chosen Field Of Research.An Attempt Has Been Made In This Book To Identify ...
Janak Raj Gupta, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BUDGET DEFICIT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term budget deficit is used in the context of the following news items.
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French State Budget Deficit Narrows End May on Year
PARIS--France's state budget deficit narrowed over the first five months of the year compared with the corresponding period in 2014, ... «Nasdaq, Jul 15»
2
State Budget 2016 Indonesia: Budget Deficit at 1.9-2.0% of GDP'
The Indonesian government targets to narrow the budget deficit to between 1.9 and 2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2016 from a ... «Indonesia Investments, Jul 15»
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Pa. has 'democratic deficit," Wolf says as budget talks drag on …
The actual budget deficit, on the other hand, is somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.2 billion, which is at least as esoteric as high-flown ... «PennLive.com, Jul 15»
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Sweden Budget Deficit Exceeds Estimate: Debt Office
The central government payments showed a shortfall of SEK 33.5 billion in June. The debt office forecast was a deficit of SEK 33.0 billion. «RTT News, Jul 15»
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Real reasons behind the Greek crisis: inefficiency and a fudged …
All this was well known before Greece joined the euro; and agreements were entered as to the size of the budget deficit (which was fudged) ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
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Lebanon's initial budget deficit to exceed $130 million
Lebanon's initial balance of the budget during the first half of 2015 recorded a deficit of $138 million, compared with a surplus of $38m during ... «AME Info, Jul 15»
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Bahrain passes 2015-16 budget deficit after 6 month delay
Bahrain's top government advisory body has passed a state budget for 2015 and 2016 after a six-month delay during which parliament forced ... «ArabianBusiness.com, Jul 15»
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Mexico Budget Deficit Widens
Mexico Budget Deficit Widens. MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's government reports that revenues fell 0.3% year-on-year (YOY) in real terms while expenditures rose ... «Latin American Herald Tribune, Jul 15»
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World Bank Advises Zambia On Budget Deficit
THE World Bank has advised the Government to come up with innovative and creative policies that will address the current deficit in the ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Building work blamed for £1m budget deficit at Christ the King College
A BUDGET deficit of more than £1 million at Christ the King College is due to it being forced to self-fund building work — including the new sixth ... «Isle of Wight County Press, Jul 15»

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