shortage

English

Etymology

short +‎ -age

Noun

shortage (countable and uncountable, plural shortages)

1. A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
   • 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. […] It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.

Antonyms

• glut
• mountain (as in butter mountain)

Related terms

• outage

Translations

lack or deficiency

• Assamese: নাটনি (natoni), অনাটন (onaton)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 短缺 (zh) (duǎnquē)

• Esperanto: malabundo
• Finnish: pula (fi), puute (fi)
• French: défaut (fr) m, rareté (fr) f, pénurie (fr) f, déficit (fr) m, insuffisance (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Mangel (de) m, Knappheit (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: σπάνις f (spánis)

• Hindi: कमी (hi) f (kamī)
• Hungarian: hiány (hu)
• Italian: scarsità (it) f, mancanza (it) f, penuria (it) f, insufficienza (it) f, carenza (it) f
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• Japanese: 不足 (ja) (ふそく, fusoku), 欠損 (ja) (けっそん, kesson)
• Korean: 부족 (ko) (bujok), 흠손 (heumson)
• Latin: inopia f
• Macedonian: недо́статок m (nedóstatok), не́достиг m (nédostig)
• Maori: kōpaka, ngōuruuru
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mangel (no) m, underskudd n

  Nynorsk: mangel m

• Portuguese: falta (pt) f, carência (pt) f, insuficiência (pt) f
• Russian: недоста́ток (ru) m (nedostátok), нехва́тка (ru) f (nexvátka), дефици́т (ru) m (deficít), недоста́точность (ru) f (nedostátočnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: cion m, gainne f, gainnead m
• Spanish: falta (es) f, carestía (es) f, escasez (es) f
• Swahili: uhaba (sw)
• Turkish: azlık (tr), kesinti (tr)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 缺乏 (zh) (quēfá)

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ნაკლებობა (naḳleboba), ^{(please verify)} დეფიციტი (depiciṭi), ^{(please verify)} უკმარობა (uḳmaroba), ^{(please verify)} სიმწირე (simc̣ire)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} elégtelenség (hu)
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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} krapte (nl) f, ^{(please verify)} tekort (nl) n

See also

• drought
• famine
• ration
• rationing