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
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as
effective as a rightly timed pause.