absence
arrear
arrearage
arrears
back debts
back payments
balance
beggary
bouncing check
break
credit
decline
defalcation
default
defect
defectiveness
deferred payments
deficiency
deficit financing
delinquency
deprivation
destitution
difference
discontinuity
discrepancy
dollar gap
drought
epact
failure
falling short
famine
fiscal deficit
gap
hiatus
imperfection
impoverishment
inadequacy
incompleteness
inferiority
insufficiency
interval
lack
lacuna
loss
missing link
need
net
omission
outage
score
want
defection
defective
defector
deficient
abnormality
budget
commitment
contribution
debt
decrease
deterioration
disruption
disturbance
dividend
dysfunction
expenditure
imbalance
impairment
inflation
revenue
saving
shortage
spend
surplus