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How to pronounce “deficiency”
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Pronunciation guide for deficiency
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of deficiency with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Buying Foreclosures
Damage of their credit, deficiency judgment,
- Definition summary
- (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
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How to pronounce deficiency
Buying Foreclosures

Damage of their credit, deficiency judgment,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “deficiency”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
- (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
- (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
- (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
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