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| Word | Syllables | Categories | 
|---|---|---|
| deficit | /xx | Noun | 
| deflation | x/x | Noun | 
| inflation | x/x | Noun | 
| stagflation | x/x | Noun | 
| service | /x | Noun | 
| monetary policy | /xxx/xx | Name, Name | 
| bust | / | Noun | 
| macroeconomics | xxxx/x | Noun | 
| economics | xx/x | Noun | 
| deflator | x/x | Noun | 
| overhang | /xx | Noun | 
| purchasing power | /xx/x | Phrase, Noun | 
| economy | x/xx | Noun | 
| gross domestic product | /x/x/x | Phrase, Noun | 
| abstinence | /xx | Noun | 
| balance of trade | /x// | Phrase, Noun | 
| public funds | /x/ | Phrase, Noun | 
| overdraft | /xx | Noun | 
| government issue | /xx/x | Phrase, Noun | 
| convergence | x/x | Noun | 
| consumerism | x/xxx | Noun | 
| recovery | x/x | Noun | 
| saving | /x | Noun | 
| volume | /x | Noun | 
| excess | /x | Noun | 
| stuffing | /x | Noun | 
| consumer credit | x/x/x | Phrase, Noun | 
| injection | x/x | Noun | 
| overage | /xx | Noun | 
| gross national product | //xx/x | Name, Name | 
| market economy | /xx/xx | Phrase, Noun | 
| bubble | /x | Noun | 
| sink | / | Noun | 
| output | /x | Noun | 
| demand | x/ | Noun | 
| devaluation | xxx/x | Noun | 
| slush fund | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| drawdown | /x | Noun | 
| contagion | x/x | Noun | 
| funding | /x | Noun | 
| debt | / | Noun | 
| speculation | xx/x | Noun | 
| free market | //x | Phrase, Noun | 
| sinking fund | /x/ | Phrase, Noun | 
| bad debt | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| indexation | /x/x | Noun | 
| investing | x/x | Noun | 
| insolvency | x/xx | Noun | 
| cash flow | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| goods | / | Noun | 
| net operating loss | //xxx/ | Phrase, Noun | 
| default | x/ | Noun | 
| conditionality | xxx/xx | Noun | 
| overhead | /x/ | Noun | 
| labor market | /x/x | Phrase, Noun | 
| absence | /x | Noun | 
| actual | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| affluent | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| allocating | /xxx | Verb, Noun | 
| amount | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| anticipated | x/xxx | Adjective | 
| antipoverty | xx/xx | Adjective | 
| appropriations | xxx/x | Noun | 
| backward | /x | Adverb, Adjective, Noun | 
| balance | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| borderline | /xx | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| borrowing | /xx | Noun, Verb | 
| budget | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| buying | /x | Noun | 
| called | / | Adjective | 
| charge | / | Noun, Verb | 
| concerned | x/ | Adjective | 
| consumer | x/x | Noun | 
| consuming | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| consumption | x/x | Noun | 
| cost | / | Noun, Verb | 
| dearth | / | Noun | 
| declines | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| decrement | xxx | Noun, Verb | 
| dedicating | /xxx | Verb | 
| defect | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| deficiency | x/xx | Noun | 
| deficient | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| departmental | xx/x | Adjective | 
| developed | x/x | Adjective | 
| devoting | x/x | Verb | 
| disability | xx/xx | Noun | 
| disablement | x/xx | Noun | 
| disadvantage | xx/x | Noun, Verb | 
| disbursement | x/x | Noun | 
| disbursing | x/x | Verb, Noun | 
| disturbed | x/ | Adjective | 
| divide | x/ | Verb, Noun | 
| estimates | /xx | Noun | 
| expansionist | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| expending | x/x | Noun | 
| expenditure | x/xx | Noun | 
| expense | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| exporting | x/x | Name | 
| failing | /x | Noun | 
| failure | /x | Noun | 
| farming | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| favored | /x | Adjective | 
| financing | x/x | Noun | 
| flaw | / | Noun, Verb | 
| flower | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| forecast | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| gap | / | Noun, Verb | 
| gat | / | Noun, Verb | 
| grudgingly | /xx | Adverb | 
| healthiest | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| hole | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| hypocrisy | x/xx | Noun | 
| imbalance | x/x | Noun | 
| impaired | x/ | Adjective, Noun | 
| imports | x/ | Noun | 
| impotence | /xx | Noun | 
| inability | xx/xx | Noun | 
| inadequacy | x/xxx | Noun | 
| inattention | xx/x | Noun | 
| incapacity | xx/xx | Noun | 
| incompetence | x/xx | Noun | 
| increases | x/x | Noun, Verb | 
| incurred | x/ | Verb | 
| indebtedness | x/xx | Noun | 
| industrialized | x/xxx | Adjective | 
| insufficiency | xx/xx | Noun | 
| insufficient | xx/x | Adjective | 
| interventionist | xx/xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| invalidity | /x/xx | Noun | 
| invalids | /xx | Noun | 
| investment | x/x | Noun | 
| items | /x | Noun | 
| labor | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| lack | / | Noun, Verb | 
| lacuna | x/x | Noun | 
| landlocked | /x | Adjective | 
| led | / | Adjective, Noun | 
| loophole | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| loss | / | Noun, Verb | 
| losses | /x | Noun | 
| metro | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| money | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| move | / | Verb, Noun | 
| negative | /xx | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| omission | x/x | Noun | 
| outlay | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| overrun | /xx | Verb, Noun | 
| passing | /x | Noun, Adjective, Adverb | 
| past | / | Noun, Adjective, Adverb | 
| payments | /x | Noun | 
| payrolls | /x | Noun | 
| periphery | x/xx | Noun | 
| planned | / | Adjective | 
| powerlessness | /xxx | Noun | 
| pressured | /x | Verb, Adjective | 
| projected | x/x | Adjective | 
| prone | / | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| provided | x/x | Verb | 
| psychopathological | /xxx/xx | Adjective | 
| psychosomatic | xxx/x | Adjective | 
| purchasing | /xx | Noun | 
| raising | /x | Noun | 
| receipts | x/ | Noun | 
| red | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| reductions | x/x | Verb | 
| reform | x/ | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| requirements | x/x | Noun | 
| resources | /xx | Noun | 
| retrenchment | x/x | Noun | 
| revenue | /xx | Noun, Verb | 
| scarcity | /xx | Noun | 
| scheduled | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| serving | /x | Noun | 
| shopping | /x | Noun | 
| shortage | /x | Noun | 
| shortcoming | /xx | Noun | 
| shortfall | /x | Noun | 
| skip | / | Verb, Noun | 
| spend | / | Verb, Noun | 
| subsidies | /xx | Noun | 
| subway | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| surplus | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| surpluses | /xx | Noun | 
| taxes | /x | Noun | 
| threat | / | Noun, Verb | 
| total | /x | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| tunnel | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| turning | /x | Noun | 
| underclass | /xx | Noun | 
| underground | /xx | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| using | /x | Noun | 
| vulnerable | /xxx | Adjective | 
| wasting | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| weakness | /x | Noun | 
| work | / | Noun, Verb | 
