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Definition of shortfall
: a failure to come up to expectation or need a budget shortfall; also : the amount of such failure a $2 million shortfall
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Examples of shortfall in a Sentence
a shortfall in milk production
Recent Examples of shortfall from the Web
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The additional money contributed by the tribe covered the last of a project budgeting shortfall.
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In just five years, the shortfalls add up to more than $3 trillion.
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His clearest achievement has been to secure a memorandum of understanding with Qatar to strengthen its counterterrorism efforts and address shortfalls in policing terrorism funding.
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A ballot initiative that might have forced the state to fill the shortfall failed narrowly in 2015.
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The changes required to deal with shortfalls of that magnitude will be enormous.
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Vos wants an increase in tax or fee revenue to plug a nearly $1 billion shortfall for transportation repairs and improvements and create a sustainable funding source for future budgets.
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By tallying up all the heat and other energy from such captures and looking for a small shortfall at the end of its spectrum, physicists should be able to infer the mass of the neutrino, just as in a tritium experiment.
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Given the multi-billion-dollar funding shortfall for nature conservation, public support is crucial.
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First Known Use of shortfall
1895
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Definition of shortfall for English Language Learners
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: a failure to get what is expected or needed; also : the amount of such a failure
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