Shortage - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- an acute insufficiency (syn: dearth, famine)
Extra examples
There was a troubling shortage of supplies for the troops overseas this year.
The city has neglected the teacher shortage for too long.
...putting up some students in local motels is obviously just an interim solution to the college's housing shortage...
The oil shortage sent prices soaring.
I doubt if London will ever be rid of its terrible housing shortage.
There is a chronic shortage of teachers.
The lawsuit says oil companies contrived the oil shortage in the 1970s.
The shortage of teachers was blamed on government cutbacks.
The oil shortage drove gas prices up by 20 cents a gallon.
The housing shortage is more acute than first thought.
The shortage of teachers poses a major problem.
'We've got a serious staffing shortage.' 'That's not my problem.'
The oil shortage is bound to send prices up.
London employers were suffering from a desperate shortage of school-leavers.
The shortage of teachers is tied up with the issue of pay.
Word forms
singular: shortage
plural: shortages
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