Deficit

(noun.) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; 'new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit'.

(noun.) an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); 'last year there was a serious budgetary deficit'.

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

(noun.) a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; 'the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory'; 'they have serious linguistic deficits'.

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• The money which I had reckoned upon never came to hand, and a premature examination of accounts exposed my deficit. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.

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