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Meaning shortage meaning

What does shortage mean?

Definitions in simple English

shortage Noun

— A shortage is when there is too little of something. There has been a shortage of food because of the drought. The company had a shortage of candidates for the job.

shortage

— noun (= deficit) 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 — noun (= dearth) an acute insufficiency

Synonyms shortage synonyms

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shortage English » English

lack deficiency scarcity deficit want shortcoming dearth insufficiency absence famine shortfall flaw need inadequacy defect gap privation lacking void ullage starvation short poverty paucity lack of incomplete delivery deprivation wart wantage vacancy under subordination subjection sub- similarity shortness shortage of water shortage in weight short weight short of scantness penury neediness macula loss insufficient inefficiency inefficacy incompleteness inadequate

Topics shortage topics

What do people use shortage to talk about?

States Quantity

Enough

What words refer to not having enough?

not enough insufficient too little too few scarce inadequate inadequacy shortage lack of be in short supply be short

States Quantity Enough

Lack

What words refer to something that you lack?

lack (n) want (n) deficiency scarcity shortage

Examples shortage examples

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Simple sentences

There's no shortage of toilet paper.

There is a shortage of money in Brian's wallet and bank account.

There is a severe shortage of water in this city, so we must give up having a bath occasionally.

Despite a shortage of steel, industrial output has increased by five percent.

I have no shortage of dictionaries.

There was a shortage of fuel.

In his opinion, the time will come soon when people will suffer from a water shortage.

Due to the water shortage, all the flowers in the garden have died.

Because of the water shortage, I couldn't take a bath.

This area suffers from a shortage of water.

There's no shortage of problems in her family.

There's no shortage of rocks.

There's a water shortage in this area.

There's no shortage of work.

This city will suffer from an acute water shortage unless it rains soon.

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

We are suffering from a severe water shortage this summer.

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

The water shortage is due to the weather.

During the water shortage, the value of water really came home to me.

A water shortage causes a lot of inconvenience.

There is a shortage of good building wood.

The emerging labor shortage is viewed as a sign of economic overheating.

Movie subtitles

Is there a shortage of rouge?

There's no shortage of them.

There's even a shortage of teddy bears, but I found one for Debby.

Oh, what's a little shortage in the books at the end of the month?

Any good bank clerk can cover up a little shortage.

Manpower shortage must be pretty bad.

With the food shortage all over the world it's seems to me that farming's about the most important work there is.

Unfortunately, if he receives any future orders for suits from me he'll have to make them without vests because of the material shortage.

I'm further informed that contrary to regulations you take advantage of the food shortage, to sell at outrageous prices.

No end in sight for the electricity shortage.

Of course, there was no shortage of sharp-witted men. who were quick to take advantage of this law.

Considering the man shortage on this craft..

People will not stand for the bread shortage much longer.

And you know the acute shortage of skilled labour.

There's no shortage of soldiers!

The shortage of steel, you know.

You know, there's been a terrible shortage of men.

There seems to be an extreme shortage of domestic help at present.

Why not? Montgomery's got no petrol shortage.

Considering the man shortage on this craft.

Sire, there's a shortage of grain.

There's a shortage because I've emptied my treasury for the guards.

There's a food shortage.

You, being single, would be in great demand. There's quite a shortage.

There's a shortage of food, telephones.

You know, there's been a terrible shortage of men. Yeah.

As a matter of fact, what with the housing shortage and all.

Don't you know there's a housing shortage?

It would go beyond these two areas if there were a drought or shortage of food.

They found a shortage in his accounts.

There's a serious shortage of cups aboard this ship.

There's a shortage.

All rice stores have to donate rice to the castle so there's a shortage.

Even if we had a great shortage of personnel, we'd never hire someone like you.

News and current affairs

Moreover, because financial institutions' assets were bought mainly with borrowed money, the shortage of credit is exacerbated by their need to deleverage.

Some measures may already have been exhausted: the country may not have any wealth or reserves left to tap, and there may be a shortage of willing lenders.

Shortage of demand for currently produced goods and services and mass unemployment no longer loom as the region's biggest macroeconomic problems.

If consumers go on a spending binge, we expect the world's central banks to raise interest rates to cool off construction spending and free up the resources needed to prevent shortage-inducing inflation.

There is no shortage of examples.

The problem, advocates of this view claim, is a shortage of productive supply rather than a shortage of aggregate demand.

But it should be easy - at least for an average parrot - to tell whether a fall in sales is due to a shortage of supply or a shortage of demand.

If, on the other hand, the fall in sales is due to a shortage of supply while there is ample demand, then prices will rise as quantities fall.

There are no places where a shortage of qualified labor or of available capacity is sufficiently great to induce managers to pay more than they have been used to paying for good hands or useful machines.

To the extent that such international councils of power exclude representatives of the Islamic world, a portion of this would-be Muslim counter-elite will seek to challenge the system, finding no shortage of ideologically committed proxies.

Restoring robust growth is difficult enough without the ever-present specter of deleveraging and a severe shortage of policy ammunition.

First, extreme financial distress can bring down the real economy, with a shortage of credit being the most potent channel.

There is no shortage of hydropower plants for electricity generation in Africa.

But, for large countries facing a liquidity shortage, the EFSF could rely on support from the ECB.

Left unchecked, it will leave India's next generation of men with a severe shortage of women.

This raises other questions concerning the consequences of a large shortage of girls.

But, given the shortage of good alternatives, we must not assume that bad habits of thought can never be broken, and we should keep the possibility of more enlightened policy constantly in mind.

The first is that the world suffers from a shortage of aggregate demand relative to supply; the second is that monetary and fiscal stimulus will close the gap.

The IMF would have to be able to issue additional SDRs in periods of shortage, as when the Fed provided dollar swaps to ensure adequate dollar liquidity in the second half of 2008.

Dianchi Lake near the provincial capital, Kunming, is so shrunken and polluted that the city faces a serious water shortage.

The shortage of health workers, facilities, and supplies prevented many people from receiving treatment, allowing the virus to spread further.

But Europe has no shortage of politicians.

Meanwhile, the credit crunch in the eurozone periphery is intensifying: thanks to the ECB long-term cheap loans, banks there don't have a liquidity problem now, but they do have a massive capital shortage.

Indeed, the market signal is clear: At present, there is no shortage of funding available in most of the EU.

Of course, it is difficult to know which exploratory path will bear fruit, and there is no shortage of novel scientific ideas that were proven wrong.

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