Associations to the word «Shortage»
Noun
- Manpower
- Drought
- Inflation
- Famine
- Scarcity
- Malnutrition
- Gasoline
- Workforce
- Housing
- Fuel
- Blackout
- Ammunition
- Food
- Starvation
- Unemployment
- Labor
- Supply
- Embargo
- Blockade
- Deforestation
- Influx
- Conscription
- Electricity
- Coinage
- Pounder
- Unrest
- Disruption
- Currency
- Hardship
- Labour
- Munition
- Petrol
- Recruitment
- Transplantation
- Crise
- Fertilizer
- Spare
- Epidemic
- Productivity
- Laborer
- Emigration
- Commodity
- Price
- Harvest
- Looting
- Import
- Irrigation
- Donor
- Availability
- Wage
- Recession
- Flooding
- Luftwaffe
- Homelessness
- Industrialization
- Lack
- Nursing
Adjective
Wiktionary
SHORTAGE, noun. A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
Dictionary definition
SHORTAGE, noun. 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".
SHORTAGE, noun. An acute insufficiency.
Wise words
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.