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nounan acute insufficiencytype of:
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nounthe property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or requiredtype of:
Definition that contains shortage
- drought a shortage of rainfall
- drought a prolonged shortage
- crunch a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)
- famine a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
- bracero a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II
- tightness a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
- stringency a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
- oxygen deficit temporary oxygen shortage in cells resulting from strenuous exercise
- drouth a shortage of rainfall
- drouth a prolonged shortage