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shortfall

[shawrt-fawl]

noun

  1. the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.

  2. the act or fact of falling short.



shortfall

/ ˈʃɔːˌɔː /

noun

  1. failure to meet a goal or a requirement

  2. the amount of such a failure; deficiency

    a shortfall of £30m

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of shortfall1

1890–95; short + fall; from verb phrase fall short
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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.

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One of them predicts that the "most likely" scenario is a shortfall of about three million hectares in land needed to spread the sludge.

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On Friday, Bass signed the 2025-26 budget approved by the council, which reworked much of her plan for closing a $1-billion shortfall.

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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.

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This highlighted a major shortfall in the global response to drug-resistant infections.

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