SHORTFALL Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

shortfall

noun

Definition of shortfall next

as in deficiency

formal a failure to get what is expected or needed a shortfall in milk production profit shortfalls

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Recent Examples of shortfall Chicago Public Schools is facing a $733 million budget gap, and has delivered more than 600 individual proposals to its principals with ideas on how to handle the shortfall. —

Marissa Perlman, CBS News, 18 May 2026 Parikh sees risks of transitory margin headwinds relating to fuel contributing to a modest shortfall in Costco's earnings per share. —

Liz Napolitano,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 18 May 2026 These shortfalls, in the past, also characterized greenwashing. —

Suvrat Dhanorkar, The Conversation, 18 May 2026 Social Security faces a shortfall as soon as 2032. —

Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 18 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for shortfall

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Noun

For most people eating a typical diet, sodium deficiency is very rare.

— Daryl Austin, USA Today, 16 May 2026
This season, however, due to a number of factors including changing personnel, injuries, underperformance from key players and tactical deficiencies, Liverpool have become a soft touch and easy to play against.

— Colin Millar, New York Times, 16 May 2026