Synonym: absence, deficiency, deficit, lack, need, want. Similar words: short, shorts, in short, shortly, cut short, short-term, a stage, cottage. Meaning: [ʃɔrtɪdʒ /ʃɔː-] 
n. 1. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required 2. an acute insufficiency.
n. 1. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required 2. an acute insufficiency. 
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31, The city is suffering a desperate shortage of water.
32, The oil shortage is bound to send prices up.
33, There is a shortage of principal.
34, Panic buying turned the petrol shortage into a crisis.
35, There is no shortage of funds.
36, There's a shortage of cheap housing in the region.
37, The fuel shortage sent prices soaring.
38, The food shortage had reached crisis proportions.
39, Schools nationwide are experiencing a shortage of teachers.
40, The pianist's performance contained no shortage of felicities.
41, The shortage of bread will probably drive prices up.
42, The labour shortage is becoming acute.
43, Any shortage could push up grain prices.
44, There was no shortage of helpers.
45, A shortage of resources has led to a cutback.
46, The shortage of teachers poses a major problem .
47, Our difficulties were compounded by shortage of petrol supply.
48, Profiteering in a time of shortage is wrong.Sentencedict
49, They face a desperate shortage of clean water.
50, Vietnam is suffering from food shortage.
51, The recent heavy rains have helped to ease the water shortage.
52, Exorbitant housing prices have created an acute shortage of affordable housing for the poor.
53, A shortage of money has forced them to scale down the project.
54, If uncontrolled, the shortage would set off a new rise in meat prices.
55, Shortage of funds is still very much a live issue.
56, There is no shortage of things to do in the town.
57, The government admitted that there was a petrol shortage, but warned people against panic buying.
58, The display problems might be due to a shortage of disk space.
59, There is a shortage of well qualified teachers of foreign languages,especially of French and Japanese.
60, The lawsuit says oil companies contrived the oil shortage in the 1970s.
More similar words: short, shorts, in short, shortly, cut short, short-term, a stage, cottage, hostage, heritage, advantage, percentage, at this stage, important, mortality, uncomfortable, importantly, take advantage of, of importance, mortgage, transportation, tag, horn, horror, hormone, show, antagonist, horizon, certain, curtain.