shortage
Meaning of shortage
noun
- a state or situation in which something needed cannot be obtained in sufficient amounts.
a shortage of hard cash
food shortages
the problems of land shortage in the countryside
Information about shortage
- It is a name.
- The plural form of shortage is: shortages.
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Hyphenation of shortage
short-age
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- shortage is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
shortage synonyms
Meaning deficit:
Meaning dearth:
Meaning the state of being scarce or in short supply; shortage:
Meaning the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts:
Meaning the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount:
Meaning the condition of being insufficient:
Meaning a lack or shortage:
Meaning the state or quality of being inadequate; lack of the quantity or quality required:
Meaning the state of being without or not having enough of something:
Meaning a lack or deficiency of something:
Meaning lack of quantity or quality; inadequacy:
Meaning the quality of being small or insufficient in quantity or amount:
Meaning the state or quality of being rare:
shortage antonyms
Meaning a very large quantity of something:
Translation of shortage
- Portuguese: carência, falta, míngua, carestia, privação, escassez
- Spanish: falta, carestía, escasez, penuria
- German: Mangel
- Italian: scarsità, penuria
- French: manque, pénurie
Anagrams of shortage
Words that rhyme with shortage
abatage, boatage, curatage, eatage, escheatage, floatage, rejectage, baronetage, dacolletage, dcolletage, feetage, folletage, metage, pamphletage, parquetage, proprietage, quietage, secretage, sheetage, streetage, valetage, décolletage, decolletage, draftage, driftage, graftage, raftage, shiftage, siftage, waftage, weftage, fraughtage, freightage, knightage, lightage, overweightage, Armitage, Hermitage, coheritage, dacoitage, enheritage, exploitage, fruitage, heritage, hermitage, hospitage, inheritage, maritage, matriheritage, recruitage
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