massive deficit

collocation in English

meaningsofmassiveanddeficit

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massive
adjective
uk
/ˈmæs.ɪv/us
/ˈmæs.ɪv/
very large in size, amount, ...
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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 ofmassiveanddeficitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The report stated that by the same date inflation would be running well into double figures, with the balance of payments showing amassivedeficit.
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Thatmassivedeficitin our overseas trade is reflected in a number of ways in our domestic economy.
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Our inheritance included not only amassivedeficitin 1964, but also a prospective deficit of substantial size in 1965.
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Is it not clear that we are heading for anothermassivedeficitthis year?
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Huge discrepancies in funding have left the colleges with amassivedeficit, so they are starting on the back foot.
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How much longer can we continue to trade with such amassivedeficitbudget on manufacturing industry?
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Why has the confident prediction of a maximum disturbance of £175 million turned into amassivedeficitof £2,000 million?
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It was clear that we could not run on as we had been doing, in view of themassivedeficit.
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We should also take into account themassivedeficitthat it is estimated the new merged trust would have.
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Let us capitalise on it and start to regain world markets and regress themassivedeficitin the balance of trade.
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There was amassivedeficitin the balance of payments.
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The oil producers as a whole will, therefore, move into a massive surplus and the rest of the world will face an equivalentmassivedeficit.
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There has been amassivedeficitin trade in the manufacturing industries.
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That does not compensate for the overall failure in manufactured trade and themassivedeficitin agricultural trade.
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Ourmassivedeficitin manufacturing trade has closed factory after factory, not only in the development areas but throughout the country.
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But we are a country inmassivedeficit.
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It is the regret of the legacy that they left us thismassivedeficit.
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There seems to be amassivedeficitin the debate about community care.
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Second, the attention of those who should be trying to improve the infrastructure of transport has been hypnotised by themassivedeficit.
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When that council changed administration almost two years ago, it inherited amassivedeficitof £2 million on the revenue account, which it has turned round.
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