Synonyms for shortage
ˈʃɔr tɪdʒshort·age

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1. shortagenoun

   Antonyms:
   glut, butter mountain, mountain

2. shortagenoun

   Antonyms:
   mountain, butter mountain, glut

3. shortagenoun

   Antonyms:
   butter mountain, mountain, glut

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1. deficit, shortage, shortfallnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   shortfall, deficit, dearth, famine

2. dearth, famine, shortagenoun

   an acute insufficiency

   Synonyms:
   shortfall, deficit, dearth, paucity, famine

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1. • Insufficiency
   • Lack

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. shortagenoun

   Synonyms:
   deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, deficit, ullage

   Antonyms:
   surplus

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1. List of paraphrases for "shortage":

   scarcity, shortages, lack, shortfall, dearth, paucity, deficit, inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency, insufficient, shortcoming, absence, penury, inadequate

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1. Cao Jun:

   From what I have heard, the mask shortage is much, much more severe than what the public knows, almost all hospital workers nationwide are facing a huge shortage of masks, not just in Wuhan. That's very terrible.

2. Abdurrahman Alomar:

   In northwest Syria, we are already suffering from a shortage of supplies, and we are now using the regular inventories in our warehouses, so we are in urgent need of additional support to compensate these supplies for regular operations — and also to be ready for aftershocks and more casualties who may come to our hospitals.

3. Nancy Gin:

   As we face the real possibility of running out of the drug for everybody if we dont take steps to mitigate the shortage, Kaiser Permanente, like other health care organizations across the country, has had to take steps to control the outflow of the medication to ensure access to severely sick patients, including both COVID-19 and those with acute lupus.

4. Tom Buschatzke:

   I'm definitely concerned that the raw projections continue to go downward and that we are heading towards potentially a Tier 2 [ shortage ] in 2023.

5. Wayne McCurrie:

   If you want extra growth, you've got to take on that extra risk, recognising that risk, by that I mean a severe shortage of shopping infrastructure, Shoprite started setting up warehouses and partnering with developers to build shopping centres and that's why it is in this quick store rollout phase whereas Massmart is a little bit behind.