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absence, arrears, balance to pay, dearth, default, deficiency, financial shortage, inadequacy, incompleteness, insufficiency, lack, loss, meagerness, omission, overdraft, paucity, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortness
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arrears, debt, decrement, deficiency, delinquency (shortage), due, insufficiency, need (deprivation), poverty
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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n.A shortfall; an insufficiency; the condition brought about by spending more money than is earned; in accounting, the opposite of surplus.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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In a budget, an excess of expenditures or liabilities over revenues or assets.Category: Business, LLCs & Corporations → Business Accounting, Bookkeeping & FinancesCategory: Business Cash Flow Problems & BankruptcyCategory: Business, LLCs & Corporations → Business Tax & DeductionsCategory: Personal Finance & Retirement → Taxes → Tax Audits
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009.
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A deficiency, misappropriation, or defalcation; a minus balance; something wanting.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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A deficiency, misappropriation, or defalcation; a minus balance; something wanting.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
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n.a shortage, less than is due, or in the case of a business or government budget, more expenditures than income. Unbalanced budgets with a planned year-end deficit are prohibited at every level of government except the federal.
Law dictionary. EdwART. 2013.