Synonyms for shortage
ˈʃɔr tɪdʒshort·age

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1. shortagenoun

   Antonyms:
   glut, butter mountain, mountain

2. shortagenoun

   Antonyms:
   mountain, butter mountain, glut

3. shortagenoun

   Antonyms:
   butter mountain, mountain, glut

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1. deficit, shortage, shortfallnoun

   the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

   "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"

   Synonyms:
   shortfall, deficit, dearth, famine

2. dearth, famine, shortagenoun

   an acute insufficiency

   Synonyms:
   shortfall, deficit, dearth, paucity, famine

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1. • Insufficiency
   • Lack

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. shortagenoun

   Synonyms:
   deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, deficit, ullage

   Antonyms:
   surplus

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1. List of paraphrases for "shortage":

   scarcity, shortages, lack, shortfall, dearth, paucity, deficit, inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency, insufficient, shortcoming, absence, penury, inadequate

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1. Ben Brubeck:

   This is a big win in removing compliance hurdles for the construction industry, which is facing multiple economic challenges, including a workforce shortage of 430,000, rising materials prices and supply chain issues. ABC continues to support vaccinations and encourages members to use its COVID-19 vaccination toolkit to keep workers safe on construction jobsites.

2. Haig Aintablian:

   Ive heard from numerous residents nationwide that they are being denied appropriate PPE (personal protective equipment) by administrators, likely due to a huge shortage, some residents are being handed one N95 mask to use for weeks at a time. We all know these masks are single-use, and using them multiple times can not only spread viral particles but also prevent their function in protecting our trainees.

3. Brenda Burman:

   What we expect that means is that Lake Powell and Lake Mead will balance, that helps with what type of shortage we might have next year, that helps as far as where we think the reservoirs might be in two to three years, so it’s very good news.

4. Julia Pollak:

   I think the image, for me, that most sums up where we are in the labor market is [the chart in this tweet] by Bloomberg’s chief economist [Michael McDonough], which shows that mentions of job cuts are now higher than mentions of labor shortages in earnings calls, that’s a big reversal after 2021 and 2022 were very much the years of the labor shortage and everyone was talking about how they were struggling to find workers.

5. Danny Russel:

   There is a worrisome shortage of tools for incident management in the US-China relationship. It is pretty urgent that the Danny Russel government pursues working lines of communication which allow them to respond to a crisis or to prevent a crisis. We need a 911 operator so to speak.