An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DEFICIT
deficit, shortage, shortfall
(noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; “new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit”
deficit
(noun) an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); “last year there was a serious budgetary deficit”
deficit
(noun) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
deficit
(noun) a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; “the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory”; “they have serious linguistic deficits”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
deficit (plural deficits)
Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds government revenue.
Synonyms
• fiscal deficit, shortfall
Antonyms
• superavit
Source: Wiktionary
Def"i*cit, n. Etym: [Lit., it is wanting, 3d person pres. indic. of L. deficere, cf. F. déficit. See Defect.]
Definition: Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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