shortage

[short·age]

A shortage is a lack of something, especially a severe lack. A drought is a shortage of water.

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Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

Noun
the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

Noun
an acute insufficiency

n.
Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

Shortage

Short"age , n. Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

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Usage Examples

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

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Other Usage Examples

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.