DEFICIT SPENDING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spending money raised by borrowing; used by governments to stimulate their economy

Synonyms:

compensatory spending; deficit spending; pump priming

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("deficit spending" is a kind of...):

disbursal; disbursement; outlay; spending (the act of spending or disbursing money)

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