Full employment deficit/Definition

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Full employment deficit [r]: A term denoting the budget deficit that would have existed if the economy had been at full employment: estimated by excluding recession-induced increases in public expenditure and reductions in revenues from taxation, that is synonymous with the term cyclically-adjusted deficit, and with one of the interpretations of the term structural deficit.