growing deficit
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrowinganddeficit
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growing
adjective
uk/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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deficit
noun[C]
uk/ˈdef.ɪ.sɪt/us/ˈdef.ə.sɪt/
the total amount by which money spent is more than ...
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(Definition ofgrowinganddeficitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The postal services have accumulated agrowingdeficit.
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That represents a rapidlygrowingdeficitin manufactured goods and one that the country cannot continue to sustain.
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We are told of the inflation, but in my opinion it is not that additional demand or that inflation which have caused thegrowingdeficit.
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There is also agrowingdeficiton the non-oil trade account.
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At a time when our economy relies more and more on education, there is a huge andgrowingdeficitto make up with our competitors.
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Does he not find this situation, in which we have a large andgrowingdeficiton information technology, very alarming?
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Secondly, we continually draw attention to the fact that we have a huge andgrowingdeficiton manufactures.
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That is a large andgrowingdeficitfactor.
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We can no longer assume that thegrowingdeficitin manufacturing goods will be covered by a surplus in invisibles or in oil.
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Certainly not to live on, to finance a continuing or even agrowingdeficit.
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In nine months out of 12 last year there was not a surplus but agrowingdeficiton invisible earnings that continued during the last eight months of last year.
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The first of them is that the old-time conventional wisdom, to take traditional steps to reduce thegrowingdeficiton the external account, has largely to be abandoned.
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It is agrowingdeficit.
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Today's figures not only reveal a deficit—and agrowingdeficit—in our balance of trade, but include the forecast that that deficit is set to grow wider still.
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For the second year running we have a massive andgrowingdeficitin manufacturing trade, which is reflected in the continuing decline of manufacturing industry in the west midlands.
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The budget bill was revised down several times, with falling tax revenues, agrowingdeficit, and exploding debt.
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His first year, he would say later, was memorable for some heartening endorsements, nearly 300 subscriptions, and a rapidlygrowingdeficit.
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The budget features significant structural reform to redress agrowingdeficit.
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Operations incurred growing deficits in the 1960s, especially on the middle section.
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