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shortfall
[shawrt-fawl]
noun
the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
the act or fact of falling short.
shortfall
/ ˈʃɔːˌɔː /
noun
failure to meet a goal or a requirement
the amount of such a failure; deficiency
a shortfall of £30m
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of shortfall1
Example Sentences
The San Diego program will target majors in behavioral health, including clinicians, practitioners and psychiatric nurses — professions with a collective 8,000-worker shortfall in San Diego.
One of them predicts that the "most likely" scenario is a shortfall of about three million hectares in land needed to spread the sludge.
On Friday, Bass signed the 2025-26 budget approved by the council, which reworked much of her plan for closing a $1-billion shortfall.
In a 315-page compliance review released Wednesday, the Department of Transportation cited budget shortfalls, missed deadlines and a misleading projected ridership to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles via fast rail.
This highlighted a major shortfall in the global response to drug-resistant infections.
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