Shortage

What do we mean by shortage?

A deficiency in amount; an insufficiency. noun

A deficit; deficiency; the amount by which anything is short. noun

Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard. noun

A lack or deficiency noun

Not enough, not sufficient noun

The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required noun

An acute insufficiency noun

A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.

Words that are spelled similarly to shortage:
shortage, shorage, sportage, storage, hostage, portage, shortcake, shortwave, mortage, shortie, sorrage, shortages, soutage, whorage.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word shortage:
manpower, skilled, nurses, ammunition, famine, surplus, supplies, doctors, affordable, coins, physicians, wages, funds, spare, accommodation, beds, acute, clergy, currency, food, supply, grain, caused, housing, fuel, personnel, labour, materials, nursing, demand, suitable, trained, delayed, meant, labor, electricity, lack, qualified, crisis, drinking, problem, coal, raw, resulted, forced, jobs, guns, resources, tanks.

Words that rhyme with shortage:
portage, reportage.

Adjectives that are often used to describe shortage:
acute, severe, serious, chronic, critical, great, general, current, present, extreme, relative, temporary, real, desperate, wartime, overall, national, actual, grave, foreign, absolute, constant, worldwide, possible, impending, persistent, postwar, perennial, consequent, wide, considerable, apparent, artificial, dire, permanent, immediate, sudden, global, tremendous, terrible, potential, continued, future, drastic, marked, domestic, greatest, nationwide, war, widespread, perpetual, seasonal, alleged, definite, term, physician, distinct, raw, alarming, anticipated, massive, genuine, substantial, universal, skilled, continuous, resultant, imminent, continual, slight, called, obvious, enormous, appalling.

Words that sound like shortage:
shortage, shortish, shorting, shoreditch, shortridge, shorage, shorty, shorten, shortie, short of, short i, portage, mortage, courtage, shorted, short hair, sharda, shortell, short, shorts, shorter, shortly, shorties, shortages, shortt, cartage, short time, charta, shortz, partage, shorea, shortia, schottische, sharp edge, chortle, aorta, sorta, torta, jorda, cordage, certa, horta, jordache, warta, aortae, sharia, yardage, charting, shortening, shara, shoring, shote, shirting, sharp tongue, shardy, sciara, xara, schartz, hartog, shortcut, charted, shortened, shirty, shira, shortness, shortens, shory, shored, cortege, short bus, shera, shortchange, shorey, shore up, shirah, shirted, shura, shoreham, schrage, shittah, schorsch, hartung, schirra, short cut, short-cut, harta, shortener, sheria, shoran, short term, sarta, short change, short ton, cartouch, larta, short run, shire town, bordage, short-range, short range.