What is another word for shortage?
Synonyms for shortage
ˈʃɔr tɪdʒshort·age
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shortagenoun
Antonyms:
glut, butter mountain, mountainshortagenoun
Antonyms:
mountain, butter mountain, glutshortagenoun
Antonyms:
butter mountain, mountain, glut
Princeton's WordNet
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"
dearth, famine, shortagenoun
an acute insufficiency
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Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
shortagenoun
Synonyms:
deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, deficit, ullageAntonyms:
surplus
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "shortage":
scarcity, shortages, lack, shortfall, dearth, paucity, deficit, inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency, insufficient, shortcoming, absence, penury, inadequate
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2498 | lack | |
#4642 | absence | |
#8380 | deficit | |
#10208 | inadequate | |
#10242 | insufficient | |
#10765 | deficiency | |
#11775 | shortage | |
#18466 | shortages | |
#21541 | famine | |
#23993 | shortfall | |
#27877 | scarcity | |
#31954 | insufficiency | |
#43809 | inadequacy | |
#47177 | dearth | |
#55818 | shortcoming | |
#60520 | paucity | |
#168469 | penury |
How to use shortage in a sentence?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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