n. a shortage, less than is due, or in the case of a business or government budget, more expenditures than income. Unbalanced budgets with a planned year-end deficit are prohibited at every level of government except the federal.
Foes definition, a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy: a bitter foe. See more.
It contrasts foe and friend, just as the sonnet contrasts love and hate. We are natural enemies; and when your foe is disabled, then is the time to strike. By this time, the first of August, we knew more about the foe we were to meet. They lie at the mercy of every foe, of every passion, of every change. Ignorant of the lawâthe law only seemed to him, as it ever does to the ignorant and the friendlessâa Foe.