shortage

English

Etymology

short +‎ -age

Noun

Wikipedia shortage (plural shortages)

1. a lack or deficiency
2. not enough, not sufficient

Antonyms

• glut
• mountain (as in butter mountain)

Related terms

• outage

Translations

lack or deficiency

• Finnish: pula (fi), puute (fi)
• French: défaut (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: hiány (hu)
• Italian: scarsità (it) f

• Macedonian: недостаток (mk) (nedóstatok) m, недостиг (mk) (nédostig) m
• Russian: недоста́ток (ru) (nedostátok) m, недоста́тки (ru) (nedostátki) pl
• Scottish Gaelic: cion (gd) m, gainne (gd) f, gainnead (gd) m

not enough, not sufficient

• Finnish: pula (fi), puute (fi)
• French: défaut (fr) m, pénurie (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: elégtelenség (hu)
• Italian: scarsità (it) f

• Macedonian: недостаток (mk) (nedóstatok) m, недостиг (mk) (nédostig) m
• Russian: нехватка (ru) (nexvátka) f, дефицит (ru) (deficít) m
• Scottish Gaelic: cion (gd) m, gainne (gd) f, gainnead (gd) m
• Swahili: uhaba (sw)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: krapte f, tekort n

See also

• drought
• famine
• ration
• rationing