Definitions for "Deficiency Payment"
an extra payment or reparation that is often necessitated in the final stages of condemnation.Related term: DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT.
Additional compensation required in a final judgment in condemnation proceedings. See also DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT.
Payment to a producer of an amount equal to the difference between a guaranteed price and the market price, with the latter often determined on the world market. A form of subsidy to production.
Generally a payment by a purchaser of natural gas to the seller after the purchaser has failed to take a contractually specified minimum amount of natural gas from the seller.
A government payment to compensate farmers for all or part of the difference between producer prices actually paid for a specific commodity and higher guaranteed target prices.