enormous deficit

collocation in English

meaningsofenormousanddeficit

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enormous
adjective
uk
/ɪˈnɔː.məs/us
/əˈnɔːr.məs/
extremely ...
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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 ofenormousanddeficitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I say nothing of theenormousdeficiton manufacturing trade.
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We are dealing with anenormousdeficitin timber production in this country.
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They cannot offset theenormousdeficiton visible trade.
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Is he saying that if they had not said anything about theenormousdeficitin the international economic field, nobody would have noticed it?
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The previous seven years to which he referred ended with theenormousdeficitwhich we had last year.
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It is indeed asking rather a lot of the science base to compensate for thisenormousdeficitby providing better value for money.
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It may run up a surplus at times, but the surplus from one year must go to reduce theenormousdeficit.
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There was anenormousdeficit, both internally and externally, and a three-day week.
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That budget deficit in turn is reflected in anenormousdeficiton their balance of payments.
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I would not describe it as anenormousdeficit.
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It is quite true that there is anenormousdeficit.
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We are therefore going to peg the pound to the currency of the country with which we have anenormousdeficit.
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Sadly, our worst fears have been realised and, once again, we find ourselves with anenormousdeficit.
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It is anenormousdeficityou have to face here.
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However, that happened for the simple, clear reason that we had to make sure that we reduced theenormousdeficitin the public finances.
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I think it must have been a very good effort on the part of the medical profession which could produce such anenormousdeficit.
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Therefore, it is the standard wages of the lowest-paid workpeople that are made responsible for thisenormousdeficit.
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He had to decide between financing anenormousdeficitand preventing the undermining of the recovery that has begun.
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But we finished the year with anenormousdeficit, at a rate which could not possibly have been sustained.
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During that period a surplus in 1973 has been converted increasingly, virtually year by year, into thisenormousdeficit.
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