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The phrase "accumulated a deficit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in financial contexts to describe a situation where expenses exceed income over a period of time.
Example: "After several years of overspending, the company has accumulated a deficit that will require significant restructuring to address."
Alternatives: "incurred a deficit" or "built up a deficit."
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Since its start-up, the company has accumulated a deficit approaching $40 million.
The company is using the virtual orchestra because it cannot afford a live one, said Jay D. Meetze, the artistic director and principal conductor, who said the troupe had accumulated a deficit over the last two years.
While Helio rode high for quite some time, that company has also lost Earthlink as an investor, seen CEO Sky Dayton depart, and accumulated a deficit of $560M.
And the company warns that it has accumulated a deficit of $40.8 million and may continue to incur losses for the 'foreseeable future.'.
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The Congressional Budget Office calculates that the federal government will accumulate a deficit of $10 trillion between 2011 and 2020, and even that depends on some fairly optimistic assumptions about economic growth.
To lose one pound of fat, one must accumulate a deficit of 3,500 calories.
For the first time since the late 1990s, the total balance of payment has accumulated a staggering deficit of $10.72 billion against the small $98 million deficit Algeria had at the same period last year.
After 14 years, the state had accumulated a total deficit of about $1 billion, she said.
At independence Nigeria had accumulated a trade deficit, which resulted from the importation of large quantities of machinery and equipment.
In the years building up to the crash, the government had accumulated a structural deficit, in other words a permanent gap, every year, between the money it was raising in tax and the money it was spending.
As of last year, the city had accumulated a resurfacing deficit of around twenty-five hundred lane miles and so was essentially starting this year with a likelihood of having at least two hundred thousand potholes, before the first snowflake even fell.
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