名詞 deficit:

1. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
   同義詞：shortage, shortfall
2. a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning
3. (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
4. an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)

1. The current trade deficit indicates a serious imbalance between our import and export trade.
   當前的貿(mào)易赤字表明我們的進出口貿(mào)易嚴重失調(diào)。
2. We have a great deficit this year.
   我們今年有很大虧損。
3. The company had a deficit of 5000 dollars.
   公司虧空了五千美元。

def.i.cit

n.（名詞）

Inadequacy or insufficiency:
不足：缺乏或不夠：
例句：
a deficit in grain production.
谷物產(chǎn)量不足

A deficiency or impairment in mental or physical functioning.
缺陷：身心功能方面的不健全
An unfavorable condition or position; a disadvantage:
失利：不利的情形或處境；弊端：
例句：
rallied from a three-game deficit to win the playoffs.
三揚比賽失利后重振旗鼓，贏得加場賽的勝利

The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required or expected amount; a shortage:
赤字，不足的數(shù)額：一筆錢達不到所要求或所期望的錢數(shù)所缺的數(shù)額；赤字：
例句：
large budget deficits.
大量的財政赤字

A business loss.
生意虧損：商業(yè)損失

來源：
French déficit
法語 déficit
from Latin dôficit [it is lacking] [third person sing. present tense of] dôficere [to fail, be lacking] * see defect
源自 拉丁語 dôficit [缺乏] [] dôficere的第三人稱單數(shù)現(xiàn)在時 [缺少，不足] *參見 defect