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short-toed eagle |
short-waisted |
short-winded |
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shortage
| shortbread
| shortbread cookie
| shortcake
| shortchange
| shortclothes
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun shortage has 2 senses
- shortage(n = noun.attribute) deficit, shortfall - 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" is a kind of deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency
- shortage(n = noun.state) dearth, famine - an acute insufficiency; Array is a kind of deficiency, lack, want
has particulars: oxygen deficit
CIDE DICTIONARY
shortage, n.
Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
shortage, n. (often foll. by of) a deficiency; an amount lacking (a shortage of 100 tons).
THESAURUS
shortage
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, wantageROGET THESAURUS
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Incompleteness
N incompleteness, deficiency, short measure, shortcoming, insufficiency, imperfection, immaturity, half measures, defect, deficit, defalcation, omission, caret, shortage, interval, break, noncompletion, missing link, missing piece, missing part, gap, hole, lacuna, incomplete, imperfect, unfinished, uncompleted &c (complete), defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing, in default, in arrear, short of, hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy, crude, mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated, in progress, in hand, going on, proceeding, incompletely, by halves, caetera desunt, caret.
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