Shortage

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shortage \Short"age\, n.
     Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some
     requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  shortage
       n 1: the property of being an amount by which something is less
            than expected or required [syn: {deficit}, {shortfall}]
       2: an acute insufficiency [syn: {dearth}, {famine}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "shortage":
     absence, adulteration, arrear, arrearage, arrears, beggary, break,
     curtailment, dearth, decline, defalcation, default, defect,
     defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, delinquency,
     deprivation, destitution, discontinuity, drought, erroneousness,
     failure, fallibility, falling short, famine, faultiness, gap,
     hiatus, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, impoverishment,
     impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness,
     inexactitude, inexactness, inferiority, insufficiency, interval,
     lack, lacuna, mediocrity, missing link, need, omission, outage,
     patchiness, paucity, pinch, scantiness, scarcity, short measure,
     shortcoming, shortfall, sketchiness, slump, starvation, tightness,
     ullage, underage, undevelopment, unevenness, unperfectedness,
     unsoundness, want, wantage