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Shortage

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a lack of something

deficit, shortage, shortfall(noun)

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"

dearth, famine, shortage(noun)

an acute insufficiency

a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number

there was a troubling shortage of supplies for the troops overseas this year

The water shortage is due to the weather.

Owing to a shortage of funds, our project failed.

The recent shortage of coffee has given rise to a lot of problems.

The shortage of engineers is the greatest bottleneck to the development of our company.

Our plan failed because of the shortage of funds.

The recent coffee shortage brought about many problems.

We are concerned about the shortage of the commodities.

Because of a shortage of work, half the staff was discharged.

The serious job shortage is also affecting those illegal foreign workers.

In 1994, there was a shortage of water and rice in Japan.

shortfall deficit dearth famine paucity scarcity shortages lack inadequacy deficiency insufficiency insufficient shortcoming absence penury inadequate crunch drought drouth failure inadequateness lacuna pinch poverty scantiness scarceness undersupply want

abundance adequacy amplitude opulence plenitude plenty sufficiency wealth

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• έλλειψη Greek
• falta carestía escasez Spanish
• pula puute Finnish
• pénurie insuffisance déficit défaut rareté French
• gainne, gainnead, cionScots Gaelic
• कमी Hindi
• elégtelenség hiány Hungarian
• scarsità carenza insufficienza penuria mancanza Italian
• 不足Japanese
• სიმწირე უკმარობა დეფიციტი ნაკლებობა Georgian
• не́достиг недо́статок Macedonian
• insuficiência carência falta Portuguese
• недостаток недоста́ток нехва́тка недоста́точность дефици́т Russian
• uhaba Swahili
• قلتUrdu