deficit spending

noun

: the spending of public funds raised by borrowing rather than by taxation

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What Trump is promising is a new economy not dependent on deficit spending, where Canada, Mexico, China and Europe no longer take advantage of the U.S. consumer’s desire for ever-cheaper products. Jeff Cox, CNBC, 1 Apr. 2025 Congress routinely punches through the debt ceiling into the sky with its addiction to deficit spending. Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 12 Feb. 2025 There’s been a heavy focus on reducing the size of government in the name of reducing government deficit spending and the national debt. Erik Sherman, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2025 To fund his war machine, Putin has been throwing the living room furniture into the furnace, cannibalizing productive sectors and relying on unsustainable, record deficit spending. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for deficit spending

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First Known Use

1938, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of deficit spending was in 1938

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“Deficit spending.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deficit%20spending. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.

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