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
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say
"infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no
word left when you want to talk about something really
infinite.