budget deficit

基本解释

Spain is going to miss its budget-deficit target of 6% of GDP for 2011.
西班牙将不能达到它的2011年的预算赤字6％的GDP目标。
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.
那些投了票的选民只赞成一项，即在预算赤字期间冻结议员工资——这成为一种发泄群体愤怒的渠道。
Since then the pact has become much more accommodating as more and more countries have breached the budget-deficit ceiling of 3% of GDP.
从那时起，这个公约就变得更“以人为本”，越来越多国家打破预算赤字上限（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