to make up a deficiency

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• deficiency — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ major, serious, severe ▪ slight ▪ dietary, nutritional ▪ immune ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• deficiency — n. defect inadequacy 1) a hearing; iron; mental; mineral; vitamin deficiency 2) (a) deficiency in incompleted work (as in school) (AE) 3) to make up a deficiency * * * [dɪ fɪʃ(ə)nsɪ] iron mental mineral vitamin deficiency …   Combinatory dictionary

• deficiency — /dɪ fɪʃ(ə)nsi/ noun a lack of something, or the amount by which something, e.g. a sum of money, is less than it should be ● There is a £10 deficiency in the petty cash. ♦ to make up a deficiency to put money into an account to balance it …   Dictionary of banking and finance

• make-weight — makeˈ weight noun 1. Something which is thrown into a scale to make up the weight 2. A person or thing of little value added to compensate for a deficiency • • • Main Entry: ↑make …   Useful english dictionary

• deficiency — A lack, shortage, or insufficiency. The amount by which the tax properly due exceeds the sum of the amount of tax shown on a taxpayer s return plus amounts previously assessed or collected as a deficiency, less any credits, refunds or other… …   Black's law dictionary

• deficiency — A lack, shortage, or insufficiency. The amount by which the tax properly due exceeds the sum of the amount of tax shown on a taxpayer s return plus amounts previously assessed or collected as a deficiency, less any credits, refunds or other… …   Black's law dictionary

• Deficiency, iron — The most common known form of nutritional disorder in the world, iron deficiency results in anemia because iron is necessary to make hemoglobin, key molecule in red blood cells responsible for the transport of oxygen. In iron deficiency anemia,… …   Medical dictionary

• make — v. & n. v. (past and past part. made) 1 tr. construct; create; form from parts or other substances (made a table; made it out of cardboard; made him a sweater). 2 tr. (foll. by to + infin.) cause or compel (a person etc.) to do something (make… …   Useful english dictionary

• make good — verb act as promised (Freq. 1) make good on promises • Hypernyms: ↑observe, ↑keep • Verb Frames: Somebody s something * * * phrasal : to make valid or complete …   Useful english dictionary

• Deficiency, ankyrin — Known also as hereditary spherocytosis (HS), this is a genetic disorder of the red blood cell membrane clinically characterized by anemia, jaundice (yellowing) and splenomegaly (enlargement of the spleen), due to deficiency of ankyrin, a protein… …   Medical dictionary

• Deficiency, lactase — Not enough of an enzyme called lactase in the small intestine to digest lactose, a prominent component of milk and most other dairy products. Lactose is sometimes also used as an ingredient in other foods, so anyone with lactase deficiency should …   Medical dictionary