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DEFICIT SPENDING
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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)