housing start | the act of starting to construct a house |
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the position of the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was created in |
deficit spending compensatory spending pump priming | spending money raised by borrowing, used by governments to stimulate their economy |
caparison trapping housing | stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse |
distributor housing | the housing that supports the distributor cam |
housing lodging living accommodations | structures collectively in which people are housed |
housing | a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component |
lamp house lamphouse lamp housing | housing that holds a lamp (as in a movie projector) |
tract housing | housing consisting of similar houses constructed together on a tract of land |
deficit shortage shortfall | the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required, new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit |
oxygen deficit | temporary oxygen shortage in cells resulting from strenuous exercise |
construction industry housing industry | an industry that builds housing |
Department of Housing and Urban Development Housing and Urban Development HUD | the United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal, created in |
Federal Housing Administration FHA | the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages |
housing development | a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management, they live in the new housing development |
housing estate | a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time |
housing project public housing | a housing development that is publicly funded and administered for low-income families |
housing commissioner | a commissioner in charge of public housing |
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was Robert C. Weaver who was appointed by Johnson |
deficit | an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period), last year there was a serious budgetary deficit |
budget deficit | an excess of expenditures over revenues |
federal deficit | an excess of the federal government's spending over its revenue, federal deficits can cause inflation |
trade deficit | an excess of imports over exports |
deficit | (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing |
attention deficit disorder ADD attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD hyperkinetic syndrome minimal brain dysfunction minimal brain damage MBD | a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders |
lack deficiency want | the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable, there is a serious lack of insight into the problem, water is the critical deficiency in desert regions, for want of a nail the shoe was lost |
deficit | a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning, the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory, they have serious linguistic deficits |
miss lack | be without, This soup lacks salt, There is something missing in my jewelry box! |