deficit spending

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscompensatory spendingpump priming

   Broaderspending

Questions about deficit spending

What does deficit spending mean?

deficit spending means "spending money raised by borrowing; used by governments to stimulate their economy".

What is another word for deficit spending?

Close synonyms include compensatory spending, pump priming. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deficit spending a common word?

deficit spending is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.