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fiscal deficit

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English

Syllables
fis-cal d-eficit
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The excess of a government’s expenditure over its revenue.

Inflected Forms

fiscal deficits (plural)

Questions

What does fiscal deficit mean?
The excess of a government’s expenditure over its revenue.

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