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the gap between what you wanted and what you could afford, made official
means A shortfall — the amount by which something falls short, especially when spending exceeds income or revenue.
from From Latin deficit, meaning 'it is lacking' or 'it is wanting,' the third-person singular of deficere, 'to fail, fall short, run out' — itself from de- ('away, down') plus facere ('to do, make'). The word entered English through accounting and bookkeeping, where 'deficit' was literally the line noting what was missing from the books.
- word origin
- Latin deficit, meaning literally it is lacking
- sleep version
- lost sleep accumulates as debt the body collects later
- attention type
- the D in ADHD describes abundance, not absence
- oxygen debt
- sprinters borrow air, repay it gasping afterward
- national scale
- US ran deficits in most years since 1970
for instance
us federal deficit 2023 — united states ran $1.7 trillion deficit in fiscal year 2023
japan government debt — japan's fiscal deficit reached 4.5% of gdp in 2022, highest among developed nations