shortage

short·age

noun \ˈshȯr-tij\

Definition of SHORTAGE

: lack, deficit

Examples of SHORTAGE

1. <there was a troubling shortage of supplies for the troops overseas this year>

First Known Use of SHORTAGE

1868

Related to SHORTAGE

Synonyms: crunch, dearth, deficit, drought (also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, deficiency, undersupply, want

Antonyms: abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenty, sufficiency, wealth

Related Words: absence, omission; meagerness, poorness, skimpiness; necessity, need, privation

Near Antonyms: bountifulness, copiousness; excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus

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Rhymes with SHORTAGE

portage