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deficiency

A deficiency is a case when there is not enough of something. There can be a vitamin deficiency, where people don't get enough vitamins and can get sick. There can be a money deficiency, where there is not enough money to do something.

deficiency

(= lack, 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 (= inadequacy) lack of an adequate quantity or number the inadequacy of unemployment benefits

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Simple sentences

Body temperature rising, pulse rising. he's in a state of oxygen deficiency.

Movie subtitles

Burying it in this deficiency bill as nice as you please, having it approved.
The shameless way in which the deficiency bill has been delayed is nothing short of criminal.
This deficiency bill will be read tomorrow.
Deficiency bill.
When that deficiency bill comes up tomorrow, don't say a word.
Owing to the urgency of the deficiency bill, there's a unanimous agreement that no senator will speak for more than five minutes on any section.
The bill providing for deficiency appropriations for the fiscal year.
To prevent his expulsion, he'll hold up this deficiency bill, vital to this country, which must be passed today!
You have the effrontery to stand there convicted and try to force postponement of the deficiency bill?
Can't we work out some deal to pull that Willet dam out and let the deficiency bill go through?
You've got a hormone deficiency.
What's my big deficiency?
Well, what's your big deficiency?
If I didn't cause this deficiency at the till. and the manager said it could be fixed if.
He has an iron deficiency.
Hyperthyroid, slight pituitary deficiency.
The probabilities are that Alexander was born with some biochemical deficiency relative to Platonius.
Another side of the deficiency of general historical life. is that individual life has as yet no history.
She has soul deficiency, as all women do.
They all got sensory deficiency.
Myxedema-- it's a thyroid deficiency.
We'II start by treating this iron deficiency.
It's a vitamin deficiency.
It's just a mineral deficiency.
A mineral deficiency?
He's got this rare immune deficiency in his blood.
That is because my doctor says that I have a very serious nougat deficiency.
Hamersly was professionally wasted under the direction. of some anal-retentive with what looks like a serious vitamin D deficiency.

News and current affairs

First, funds from different sources of finance are interchangeable to a certain degree: deficiency of funds for one component of total debt can be supplemented by surplus funds originally aimed at financing other components.
To cope with this deficiency, some scientists have tried to reinvent the tools of one level in order to apply them to another.
A slump, after all, is defined by a deficiency in total spending.
We know that iron deficiency leads to cognitive and developmental problems.
Its architects were fully aware of this deficiency, but believed that when the need arose, the political will could be summoned to take the next step forward.
They could be confident, however, that when the time came to correct a deficiency, the necessary political will could be summoned.
America has a savings deficiency, not a glut.
But what the world economy is facing is not a savings glut, but an investment deficiency.
Unless, that is, we take EPO to make up for our genetic deficiency.
Today, a deficiency of aggregate demand afflicts almost all advanced countries, leading to high unemployment, lower wages, greater inequality, and - coming full, vicious circle - constrained consumption.
But there is a strong case to be made that the cuts that Osborne did make impeded recovery, by removing spending power from an economy already suffering from a deficiency of aggregate demand.
The natural interest rate was low because, as the Fed's current chairman Ben Bernanke explained at the time, the world had a global savings glut (or, rather, a global investment deficiency).
Over those 12 years, about eight million children worldwide died from vitamin A deficiency.
A study from the British medical journal The Lancet estimates that, in total, vitamin A deficiency kills 668,000 children under the age of five each year.
Most physicians in North America and Europe never see a single case of vitamin A deficiency in their professional lifetimes.
The pattern of Republican deficiency holds up when the span of historical analysis is extended by using stock returns to measure economic performance.
But in a world with such huge infrastructure needs, the problem is not a surplus of savings or a deficiency of good investment opportunities.
Another major deficiency of the MDGs is their failure to recognize human rights as essential to any sustainable development strategy.
Its architects were aware of this deficiency, but other flaws in their design became apparent only after the crash of 2008.
The deficiency of IFRS is that it does not mitigate systemic contagion resulting from asset price movements.
Structural factors go a long way to explain this deficiency.
For example, recent data show that even a moderate deficiency of Vitamin A results in higher mortality.
But this is because of a deficiency in their social arrangements and their political or judicial systems.
Creating a euro-zone government bond market would bring immediate benefits, in addition to correcting a structural deficiency.
It is now a quarter-century since the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) was recognized.

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