operating deficit

collocation in English

meaningsofoperatinganddeficit

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operating
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈɒp.ər.eɪ.tɪŋ/
us
/ˈɑː.pər.eɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
businessspecialized
relating to the main business activities of ...
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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 ofoperatinganddeficitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Moreover, these changes must take account of the nature of economic cycles and the necessary distinction between anoperatingdeficitand an investment deficit.
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Theoperatingdeficitand social grants are the subsidies to which we refer.
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For 1961, it is expected that theoperatingdeficitwill be about £850,000.
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Neither was offered support for anoperatingdeficitor help with capital expenditure.
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But, even without taking account of interest charges, theoperatingdeficitof the railways is now running at about £80 million a year.
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That is the plannedoperatingdeficit, over and above the investment level.
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Theoperatingdeficitby last year was more than one-third below the 1962 peak.
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Another £4.8 million is the cumulativeoperatingdeficiton the bridge account, which is separate from other county council finances.
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In the same letter, he questioned the interest liability on theoperatingdeficit—that £11 million.
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The target for 1992–93 is anoperatingdeficitof £1.49 million.
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Their operating surplus completely disappeared and was replaced by anoperatingdeficitof over £1 million.
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Theoperatingdeficitis met by means of a grant in aid.
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Paragraph 8 of the background to the report mentions the worst case scenario, which could lead to "a possible net annualoperatingdeficitof £232,000".
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It gives the figures up to 1962, and by that time theoperatingdeficithad risen to £104 millions.
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That is true; there was a smalloperatingdeficit—an accounting deficit.
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As new money comes into the railways, so this will increase, and at the same time they are running anoperatingdeficitof some £80 million a year.
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The agency's key target for 1994–95 is to reduce its netoperatingdeficit—exclusive of rent1—from an expected £0.711 million in 1993–94 to £0.382.
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In 2002–03, the college reported anoperatingdeficitof £883,000 and a total deficit of more than £1 million, compared with a surplus of more than £1 million in the previous year.
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Anoperatingdeficitwith the salesman's office of £20,000 which must also be repaid now leaves him with £54,000.
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Out of the total deficit last year of £134 million —that is not just theoperatingdeficit, but the total one—the stopping and suburban services accounted for about £50 million.
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