shortage : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: shortage	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for shortage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shortage n 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" Synonym(s): deficit, shortage, shortfall an acute insufficiency Synonym(s): dearth, famine, shortage
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shortage \Short"age\, n. Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.