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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151, Doubts will be created about management and good housekeeping at the school if there appears to be a shortage of basic equipment.
152, This change could have created a severe shortage of corneas and other tissues in California, said Ward.
153, Despite a slight shortage of new ideas, she remains the strongest candidate the Democrats have fielded for some time.
154, Second, there is as yet no land shortage, and new land can still be taken into cultivation without much problem.
155, China has a chronic shortage of capital, so it must encourage saving.
156, They've had a lot of enquiries about the company - there's no shortage of potential buyers.
157, Boston employers are facing an acute labour shortage with potentially serious consequences for economic growth.
158, There will not be a shortage of ball gowns and tuxes.
159, But shortage of teachers and timetabling problems make it very difficult for schools to work any great breadth into the system.
160, Will he accept that there is indeed an acute shortage of intensive care beds for children?
161, The lawsuit says oil companies contrived a gasoline shortage in the early 1970s.
162, However, shortage of physiotherapy and other services, together with rapid hospital discharge, militates against such results being achieved.
163, In addition, there is a growing demand for language courses coupled with a shortage of trained language teachers.
164, Other problems included growing unemployment, serious corruption, a shortage of water and environmental deterioration.
165, Paradoxically, Soviet planners turned the primitive conditions and shortage of supplies at the factories to their advantage, Overy says.
166, One reason may be the chronic shortage of funds that requires many rural schools to make up their budgets by irregular means.
167, Towards the end of the postwar boom, an imbalance between accumulation and the labour supply led to increasingly severe labour shortage.
168, In any case, shortage of profits is quite implausible as an explanatory factor. Sentencedict.com
169, Does it mean there is no shortage of card tables, as we all feared?
170, He had expected to get a $ 100m loan to ease the fuel shortage.
171, Although Newsreel made some startlingly good documentaries, shortage of funds was a constant problem.
172, Again the desperate shortage of materials and the home-made nature of the goods was evident.
173, Selective assessment can not be dispensed with while there is a shortage of resources to meet individual needs.
174, Doctors' leaders joined calls for the Government to acknowledge that the outbreak had exposed a critical shortage of hospital beds.
175, Organisations that apply for the DoI's research cash say that bureaucratic procedures and shortage of staff are to blame.
176, The root causes of the horse shortage are year-round racing and a mass exodus of owners and breeders from racing.
177, The colonial world can be hit by a shortage in chemical fertilizers.
178, This religious ban compounded the chronic shortage of grazing land.
179, There's a shortage of medical staff, so a lot of the doctors here are from abroad.
180, The shortage of water is beginning to cause widespread concern.
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.