state budget deficit

noun [C]

Definition

› ECONOMICS, GOVERNMENT in the US, an amount of extra money that the government of a state needs because it has spent more money than it received in taxes, etc.: She inherited a $2 billion state budget deficit when she took office.

(Definition of state budget deficit noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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