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shortage
[shawr-tij]
noun
a deficiency in quantity.
a shortage of cash.
Synonyms: , ,the amount of such deficiency.
shortage
/ ˈʃɔːɪ /
noun
a deficiency or lack in the amount needed, expected, or due; deficit
Other 51Թ Forms
- preshortage noun
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Example Sentences
Although the blockade was partially eased in late May, amid warnings of a looming famine from global experts, there are still severe shortages of food, as well as medicine and fuel.
Medical staff and dozens of patients in intensive care remain inside the hospital, where the fuel shortage threatens to shut down life-saving services.
Delays, infrastructure gaps and personnel shortages to Britain's most advanced warplane programme are undermining the UK's warfighting capability, the public spending watchdog has said.
Despite a rice shortage that has sent prices soaring, PM Ishiba has refused to buy US rice, choosing instead to protect domestic farmers.
And it was decisions by policymakers, judges, law enforcement and industrial leaders that caused the shortage.
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