shortage

Meaning of shortage

noun
  1. 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:

deficit, shortfall

Meaning dearth:

dearth, famine

Meaning the state of being scarce or in short supply; shortage:

scarcity

Meaning the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts:

paucity

Meaning the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount:

poverty

Meaning the condition of being insufficient:

insufficiency

Meaning a lack or shortage:

deficiency

Meaning the state or quality of being inadequate; lack of the quantity or quality required:

inadequacy

Meaning the state of being without or not having enough of something:

lack

Meaning a lack or deficiency of something:

want

Meaning lack of quantity or quality; inadequacy:

meagreness

Meaning the quality of being small or insufficient in quantity or amount:

scantiness

Meaning the state or quality of being rare:

rarity

shortage antonyms

Meaning a very large quantity of something:

abundance

Translation of shortage

Anagrams of shortage

hostager

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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