- 1赤字、不足額；貿易上則是逆差。台灣新聞講政府缺錢時多用「赤字」。
A deficit is the hole when you have less than you need. The most common use is money: a government or a company spends more than it takes in, and that year’s hole is a deficit. Sports people use it the same way — a team losing 2–0 has a two-goal deficit. Doctors use it when a part of the body or the mind is weaker than it should be, for example after a stroke. It is a fairly careful, news-and-school word. At the dinner table you would more often say we are short or we are in the red. People also stretch it in a fancy way: a deficit of trust means there is not enough trust. The tidy picture is always the same: what you have, set against a higher amount you needed.
From the word’s history
From French déficit, from Latin dēficit; related to defect.
借自法文 déficit，來自拉丁文 dēficit；和 defect 有關。
組成From French déficit, from Latin dēficit（「不夠了」）。和 defect 同源。
同家族的字
- defectshares the Latin root about something missing or going wrong
- deficientnot having enough of something
- deficiencythe state of not having enough
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
deficitnoun/ˈdɛfɪsɪt/
- 1
Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
- The crop output this year has been comparatively small, owing to the deficit in rainfall.
- 2
A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds (e.g. government) revenue.
- Dr. Beeching's obvious intent is that if Scottish—and similarly unprofitable English and Welsh—railways are to be maintained, it must be done by an unconcealed subsidy; he is determined that the railways shall no longer be preoccupied with—and derided for—immense deficits which include the burden of social services the State must openly underwrite, if it wants them.
- But Wall Street, which has a case of deficit-attention disorder, is no longer focused on a balanced budget. "The bond market only worries about one thing at [a time.]
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。