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A Deficit or a short fall represents a lack of a value. for Example a deficit of 100 rupees in a budget means that we are short of Rs. 100/- to complete the budget and hence the deficit is shown as "-100"

It is shown as a negative value to signify the fact that, this value is less than 0.

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