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Synonyms for shortage
ˈʃɔr tɪdʒshort·age

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  1. shortagenoun

    Antonyms:
    glut, butter mountain, mountain

  2. shortagenoun

    Antonyms:
    mountain, butter mountain, glut

  3. shortagenoun

    Antonyms:
    butter mountain, mountain, glut

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 2 votes

  1. deficit, shortage, shortfallnoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    shortfall, deficit, dearth, famine

  2. dearth, famine, shortagenoun

    an acute insufficiency

    Synonyms:
    shortfall, deficit, dearth, paucity, famine

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Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words5.0 / 1 vote

  1. shortagenoun

    Synonyms:
    deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, deficit, ullage

    Antonyms:
    surplus

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#4642absence
#8380deficit
#10208inadequate
#10242insufficient
#10765deficiency
#11775shortage
#18466shortages
#21541famine
#23993shortfall
#27877scarcity
#31954insufficiency
#43809inadequacy
#47177dearth
#55818shortcoming
#60520paucity
#168469penury

How to use shortage in a sentence?

  1. Clara Pitts:

    I hadn’t heard anything about a shortage, i didn’t really take it seriously at first until later that week – maybe three or four days later – when I started to hear news about the shortage, and it really started to sink in.

  2. Andrew Herdman:

    There is not so much a shortage of pilots as a rising cost of attracting and retaining the pilots you need, particularly the experienced ones, there is a bidding war going on.

  3. Trevor Phillips:

    The snowy peaks of British business remain stubbornly white, we know there is no shortage of qualified candidates to fill these roles if companies are willing to look.

  4. Osama Mourad:

    The government is not realising the importance of capital markets, expectations were raised regarding the arrival of $6 billion in deposits (from oil-rich Gulf nations). However, the central bank has not announced what it plans to do with them and companies are suffering from the shortage of foreign currency.

  5. Takeshi Okuwaki:

    A shortage of chip supply will take time to fix, which will also weigh on Japan’s automobile production.


Translations for shortage

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  • Mangel, KnappheitGerman
  • έλλειψηGreek
  • escasez, falta, carestíaSpanish
  • pula, puuteFinnish
  • rareté, pénurie, insuffisance, défaut, déficitFrench
  • gainne, cion, gainneadScottish Gaelic
  • कमीHindi
  • hiány, elégtelenségHungarian
  • mancanza, carenza, penuria, insufficienza, scarsitàItalian
  • 不足Japanese
  • უკმარობა, ნაკლებობა, დეფიციტი, სიმწირეGeorgian
  • не́достиг, недо́статокMacedonian
  • insuficiência, carência, faltaPortuguese
  • дефици́т, недостаток, недоста́точность, нехва́тка, недоста́токRussian
  • uhabaSwahili
  • قلتUrdu

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