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

Matched Categories

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. Linda Mendonca:

   I have heard anecdotally too that for nurses who were close to retirement, or thinking about it, that the pandemic has maybe pushed School Nurses ' in that direction sooner than what School Nurses ' may have been planning on, so that makes the shortage even a little more critical than what we've been dealing with.

2. Takeshi Okuwaki:

   A shortage of chip supply will take time to fix, which will also weigh on Japan’s automobile production.

3. Donald Dereamus:

   The first three digits you dial is 911 – you rely on that person. You expect someone to show up, it doesn’t cross your mind that somebody isn’t going to show – and if this shortage keeps happening nobody is going to show or its going to be a long time.

4. Tom Kloza:

   With the labor shortage this year, higher salaries are also putting pressure on those local oil stations.

5. Lawrence Yun.Akron:

   The housing wealth gain has been sizable over the past two years, however, due to the ongoing inventory shortage and rising interest rates, homeownership attainment will become especially challenging unless drastically more housing supply is available.