0 a state of not having, or not having enough, of something that is needed: --
1 the lack of something that is needed in order to meet a particular standard or level of quality, or the thing that is lacking: --
2 a situation in which something is not as good as it should be: --
identify/highlight a deficiency We need to identify any deficiencies in the system and address them immediately.
an operations/performance/service deficiency
a deficiency in sth The audit revealed deficiences in the accounting system.
3 the amount by which something such as income or profit is less than it should be: --
The company has suffered recurring losses from operations and has a net capital deficiency that raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.
The accounts show a balance sheet deficiency - the amount by which liabilities exceed assets - of £13.19m at December 31.
a deficiency in sth They are not permitted to borrow additional funds as long as any deficiency exists in the capital reserve fund.
4 the amount by which the tax recorded in someone's financial records is less than the tax they actually owe, or a situation in which this happens: --
Dichotomous measures (democracy\authoritarianism) are particularly prone to this deficiency.
Findings within the ventricular walls and coronary vessels suggest a relationship of this complex to regional deficiencies of myocardial vascularization.
The few women accounted as poor marriage partners because of obvious deficiencies have entered into temporary, non-marital, childbearing unions.
Ten films showed evidence of iron deficiency anaemia.
Plant response to stress: biochemical adaptations to phosphate deficiency.
In order to overcome the aforementioned deficiency, the polytope technique is proposed in this article.
Section 2 outlines the epistemological assumptions and deficiencies of the "uncertainty reduction" argument.
Effect of intestinal parasite treatment on the efficacy of oral iodized oil for correcting iodine deficiency in schoolchildren.
