shortage

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Noun shortage has 2 senses

deficit, shortage, shortfall - the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
--₁ is a kind of insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
--₁ has particulars: oxygen deficit
dearth, famine, shortage - an acute insufficiency
--₂ is a kind of lack, deficiency, want

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