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budget deficit

NOUN
  1. an excess of expenditures over revenues

How To Use budget deficit In A Sentence

  • People have asked me why I do not include other important variables such as the budget deficit. Times, Sunday Times
  • The budget deficit has ballooned to $25 billion.
  • The Chancellor has not taken the opposite political risk of a serious attempt to reduce the budget deficit by increases in taxation and reductions in expenditure. Times, Sunday Times
  • After years in the doldrums, the economy is picking up, and the seemingly intractable budget deficits have been avoided for the past two years.
  • It is against this backcloth that the Spanish budget-cutting has been announced, and it will be taken as a benchmark for other euro-zone countries with high budget deficits. Spain Is Simply Shifting the Problem
  • They are divided for months over how to eliminate the budget deficit.
  • For his second he inherits, from himself, a whacking budget deficit of his own making and a huge current account deficit.
  • Unfortunately, that is highly unlikely in the United States, where a bloated budget deficit has already become a major talking point for politicians looking to November's congressional elections.
  • As a senator, Dole has worried more about budget deficits and debt than most of his Republican colleagues.
  • The uncertainties associated with large federal budget deficits warn against exclusive focus on the total spending done by government.
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