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shortage

English

  1. 🔊 the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
    “new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit”
  2. 🔊 an acute insufficiency

Spanish

  1. 🔊 apuro shortage
  2. 🔊 déficit shortage
  3. 🔊 penuria shortage, lack, dearth
  4. 🔊 desabasto shortage, lack of service
  5. 🔊 escasez shortage, scarcity, paucity, dearth, scarceness, scantiness

Similar words

deficit shortfall dearth famine absence adulteration arrear arrearage arrears beggary break curtailment dearth decline defalcation default defect defectibility defectiveness deficiency deficit delinquency deprivation destitution