Antonyms 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

Matched Categories

1. • Insufficiency
   • Lack

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

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

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

1. shortagenoun

   Antonyms:
   surplus

   Synonyms:
   deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, deficit, ullage

How to use shortage in a sentence?

1. Stuart Cole:

   Whatever you raise interest rates to in the UK, it is not going to have a material impact on the price of gas or oil, because there is a genuine shortage, so if you’re a producer, it is happy days.

2. Michael Mulgrew:

   The city’s estimate is that 97% of the teachers have been vaccinated, but according to our recent survey of UFT chapter leaders, only about one-third believe that as of now their schools can open without disruption, given the potential shortage of unvaccinated personnel, including school aides and security personnel, the city has a lot of work before it to ensure that enough vaccinated staff will be available by the new deadline.

3. Brian Calley:

   There is no longer a shortage of jobs, i have never heard or seen this level of frustration and concern over the inability to find or fill open jobs.

4. Bola Tinubu:

   The fuel shortage is severely biting for the average person. They are forced to remain in lines far too long, for too much time, to pay too much money for too little fuel, this is no joking matter. Livelihoods and people's welfare are at stake. With so much on the line, Kachikwu's flippancy was out-of-line.

5. Syrian Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari:

   There is no shortage of humanitarian assistance in Madaya.

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