shortage

shortage is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
2. noun. 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: deficit, shortfall

3. noun. an acute insufficiency

   Synonyms: dearth, famine

Synonyms

deficit, shortfall, dearth, famine

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shortage:

hostager

Common word forms

shortages

Words from these letters

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