Antonyms of noun deficit

1 of 4 senses of deficit

Sense 3
deficit -- ((sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing)
       Antonym of lead (Sense 7)
      => lead -- ((sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun deficit

4 senses of deficit

Sense 1
deficit, shortage, shortfall -- (the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit")
       => insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency -- (lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits")

Sense 2
deficit -- (a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits")
       => lack, deficiency, want -- (the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost")

Sense 3
deficit -- ((sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing)
       => score -- (a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest; "the score was 7 to 0")

Sense 4
deficit -- (an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit")
       => liabilities -- (anything that is owed to someone else)

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