The phrase "plug a deficit" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to take action to fix or cover a financial or numerical shortfall or shortage. You can use this phrase when talking about budgeting, financial planning, or any situation where there is a lack of something that needs to be addressed. For example: - The government needs to find ways to plug the deficit in the national budget. - The company made cuts in order to plug the deficit in their profits. - The team worked together to plug the deficit in their score and ultimately won the game.
The adopted county budget must plug a deficit of roughly $143 million next year and a shortfall of nearly $380 million projected by 2004.
Mark Thompson, the BBC director general, has warned the unions that management did not have much scope to negotiate in attempting to overhaul the corporation's pension scheme to try to plug a deficit that could be as much as £2bn.
They labeled the situation a flood, a monsoon and simply "rainy," while expressing support for the budget, which dives into reserve funds from the parking-meter deal to help plug a deficit of $520 million.
The review was partly prompted by Channel 4's calls for public funding to plug a deficit it sees developing to as much as £150m a year by 2012, as advertisers flock to more purely entertainment shows.
Earlier today Thompson warned staff that BBC management did not have much scope to negotiate in attempting to overhaul the corporation's pension scheme to try to plug a deficit that could be as much as £2bn.
That was the year Republicans turned former governor Jim Florio's $2.8 billion emergency tax increase -- designed to plug a deficit inherited from his Republican predecessor -- into a gold mine of Republican anti-tax votes.
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Westchester County is trying to plug a $120 million deficit next year.
A deal to plug a £571m deficit in the pension fund is yet to be secured.
Net income rose to 405 million euros ($450 million), from 106 million euros ($118 million) a year earlier when the bank took a charge to plug a pension deficit.
In July, the Saudis issued domestic bonds for the first time since 2007 to help plug a budget deficit that's around $100bn, he said.
