Shortage \Short"age\, n.
Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some
requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shortage
n 1: the property of being an amount by which something is less
than expected or required [syn: deficit, shortfall]
2: an acute insufficiency [syn: dearth, famine]
WordNet (r) 2.0
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "shortage":
absence, adulteration, arrear, arrearage, arrears, beggary, break,
curtailment, dearth, decline, defalcation, default, defect,
defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, delinquency,
deprivation, destitution, discontinuity, drought, erroneousness,
failure, fallibility, falling short, famine, faultiness, gap,
hiatus, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, impoverishment,
impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness,
inexactitude, inexactness, inferiority, insufficiency, interval,
lack, lacuna, mediocrity, missing link, need, omission, outage,
patchiness, paucity, pinch, scantiness, scarcity, short measure,
shortcoming, shortfall, sketchiness, slump, starvation, tightness,
ullage, underage, undevelopment, unevenness, unperfectedness,
unsoundness, want, wantage
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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