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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