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1. (n.) shortage
a deficiency in quantity:
a shortage of cash.
2. shortage
the amount of such deficiency.
Etymology: (1865–70)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) 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"
2. (noun) dearth, famine, shortage
an acute insufficiency
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1. (noun) shortage
a lack
a shortage of skilled workers; water shortages
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) shortage
amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts
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Sense: a lack; the state of not having enough
a shortage of water.
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 Afrikaans: tekort |
 Arabic: نَقْص، نُقْصان |
 Bulgarian: недостиг |
 Brazilian: falta |
 Czech: nedostatek |
 German: die Knappheit |
 Danish: mangel |
 Greek: έλλειψη |
 Spanish: falta, escasez |
 Estonian: kitsikus, puudus |
 Farsi: كمبود |
 Finnish: puute |
 French: manque, pénurie |
 Hebrew: מַחֲסוֹר |
 Hindi: कमी, अभाव, अल्पता |
 Croatian: nedostatak, nestašica |
 Hungarian: hiány |
 Indonesian: kekurangan |
 Icelandic: skortur |
 Italian: scarsità, mancanza |
 Japanese: 不足 |
 Korean: 부족 |
 Lithuanian: stygius |
 Latvian: (kaut kā) trūkums |
 Malay: kekurangan |
 Dutch: tekort |
 Norwegian: mangel, skort, knapphet |
 Polish: brak |
 Persian: كمبود |
 Pashto: كمې، كموالى، لږوالى كسر: |
 Portuguese: falta |
 Romanian: lipsă, penurie |
 Russian: нехватка, недостаток |
 Slovak: nedostatok |
 Slovenian: pomanjkanje |
 Serbian: nedostatak |
 Swedish: brist, knapphet, undersko |
 Thai: ความขาดแคลน |
 Turkish: kıtlık, darlık |
 Taiwanese: 缺少 |
 Ukrainian: недостача, дефіцит |
 Urdu: کمی |
 Vietnamese: sự thiếu, số lượng thiếu |
 Chinese: 缺少 |
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