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shortagenoun a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or numberthere was a troubling shortage of supplies for the troops overseas this year crunch, dearth, deficiency, deficit, drought(also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, undersupply, want absence, omissionmeagerness, poorness, skimpinessnecessity, need, privation abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenty, sufficiency, wealth bountifulness, copiousnessexcess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus in 1868 |