'Shortage' definitions:
Definition of 'shortage'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Shortage'
From: GCIDE
- Shortage \Short"age\, n. Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'shortage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absence,
- adulteration,
- arrear,
- arrearage,
- arrears,
- beggary,
- break,
- curtailment,
- dearth,
- decline,
- defalcation,
- default,
- defect,
- defectibility,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- delinquency,
- deprivation,
- destitution,
- discontinuity,
- drought,
- erroneousness,
- failure,
- fallibility,
- falling short,
- famine,
- faultiness,
- gap,
- hiatus,
- immaturity,
- impairment,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- impurity,
- inaccuracy,
- inadequacy,
- inadequateness,
- incompleteness,
- inexactitude,
- inexactness,
- inferiority,
- insufficiency,
- interval,
- lack,
- lacuna,
- mediocrity,
- missing link,
- need,
- omission,
- outage,
- patchiness,
- paucity,
- pinch,
- scantiness,
- scarcity,
- short measure,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- sketchiness,
- slump,
- starvation,
- tightness,
- ullage,
- underage,
- undevelopment,
- unevenness,
- unperfectedness,
- unsoundness,
- want,
- wantage