budget deficit

基本解釋

Spain is going to miss its budget-deficit target of 6% of GDP for 2011.
西班牙將不能達(dá)到它的2011年的預(yù)算赤字6％的GDP目標(biāo)。
Those who did turn out rejected all measures except one that freezes legislators’ pay during budget-deficit years—a ritualised form of venting general anger.
那些投了票的選民只贊成一項(xiàng)，即在預(yù)算赤字期間凍結(jié)議員工資——這成為一種發(fā)泄群體憤怒的渠道。
Since then the pact has become much more accommodating as more and more countries have breached the budget-deficit ceiling of 3% of GDP.
從那時(shí)起，這個公約就變得更“以人為本”，越來越多國家打破預(yù)算赤字上限（GDP的3％）。

"The budget that would have no tax increases, a budget that is cutting spending we deal with the entire twenty-six billion dollar deficit, around fifteen billion dollars in cuts that we are making."
He was not kidding. The most significant detail is the cost of his plan and its impact on our long-term budget deficit,".
But Mr.Obama's critics point out that the $100 million in cost cutting is miniscule - just a tiny fraction of one percent of the federal budget deficit.

However, some economists think that there may be less to the budget-deficit figure than meets the eye.
ECONOMIST: The public sector needs slimming down

the amount by which government expenditure exceeds income from taxation, customs duties, etc, in any one fiscal year