noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ enormous , huge , large , massive , serious , substantial
▪ ballooning , exploding , growing , soaring
▪ small
▪ net , overall
▪ projected
▪ balance-of-payments , budget , current-account , federal , financial , fiscal , trade
▪ national
▪ attention , cognitive , neurological
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attention ~ disorder
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His teacher thought he had some sort of cognitive ~.
VERB + DEFICIT
▪ face , have , run , show
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If the government didn't run such huge ~s, the country would not have financial problems.
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The trade balance shows a ~ of two million dollars.
▪ go into , move into , run up , slip into
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to prevent the country from moving into ~
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The company has run up a ~ of £30 000.
▪ increase , widen
▪ address , tackle
▪ cut , halve , narrow , reduce , shrink
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You cannot cut a budget ~ simply by raising taxes.
▪ correct , eliminate , erase , make up , wipe out
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We will find it hard to make up this ~.
▪ overcome
▪ overturn ( BrE , sports )
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United are hoping to overturn a two-goal ~ from the first leg.
▪ finance , fund
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The government was forced to sell state-owned companies to fund the budget ~.
DEFICIT + VERB
▪ run at sth
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a budget ~ running at 7% of GDP
▪ grow , increase , rise , widen
▪ balloon , soar
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The US trade ~ ballooned to a record $167 billion.
▪ decrease , fall , narrow , shrink
PREPOSITION
▪ in ~
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The UK remained in ~ with all countries outside the EU.
▪ ~ with
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the US trade ~ with Japan