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budget deficit
noun [C] ECONOMICS, FINANCEDefinition
› the amount of extra money that a government needs because it has spent more money than it earned: The White House says the federal government will run a $9 trillion budget deficit over the next decade. → Compare budget surplus
(Definition of budget deficit noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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