Deficiency is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFICIENCY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a lack, shortage, also DEFICIENCE
• a lack or shortage
• a failing or shortcoming
• the amount by which something, especially revenue, falls short; a deficit
• The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
• the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
• lack of an adequate quantity or number
• a lack, shortage
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being deficient; inadequacy

Words related to DEFICIENCY

deficiencies20 shortage12

Words that contain DEFICIENCY

immunodeficiency31

How to use DEFICIENCY in a sentence

• But, so far as there is a deficiency in these respects among us, this generation must not shrink from the responsibility.
• On the presumption that this depression and the deficiency in the revenue arising from it would be temporary, loans were authorized for the demands of the last and present year.
• I searched the print shops in the metropolis, and with the aid of drawings from friends, supplied this deficiency.
• The great deficiency in our systems of education, with respect to moral training, is truly lamentable, from the highest down to the lowest schools in the land.
• I have directed an estimate to be made, which is sent herewith, and will exhibit the deficiency for which an appropriation appears to be necessary.
• II As to the heavy infantry, an arm the deficiency of which at Athens is well recognised, this is how the matter stands.
• And yet, pitiful as is this exhibit of deficiency, these Highland dwellers are none the less men and our brethren.
• But it was not long before I found a double deficiency, which quickly discouraged me in this design.
• Your thorough utilitarian, deficient in imagination, his idea of mental symmetry being his own mental proportions, thinks no mind well balanced that has not a similar deficiency.
• They resolved that a supply should be granted for making good the deficiency of parliamentary funds, and appropriated several duties for this purpose.
• Lord Althorp attributed this deficiency chiefly to the reduction of taxation in 1830.
• There was but a small quantity of powder and ball, few tools to build intrenchments with, and a great deficiency of provisions and clothes for the soldiers.
• It was found that he and his brothers had made just enough over their share to make up the deficiency.
• But for this deficiency he possibly might, in the distressed condition of the Spanish fleet, have forced a surrender of the entire Armada.
• In the light of finer and more spiritual feelings, it appeared as a deficiency and corruption of character.
• If a soil is deficient in potash, the crop which will first indicate the deficiency, will probably be clover, or beans.
• It, therefore, peculiarly vexed me to find so total a deficiency of clear and sound instruction in the New Testament, and eminently in the gospel of John, on so vital a question.
• But even a physical deficiency can be overcome by that faculty for taking infinite pains which may not be genius but is certainly a good substitute for it.
• It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in States, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
• On the other hand, those who are less capable may need to have special drill exercises arranged which will help them to make up their deficiency.
• To supply the deficiency has been the ambition of the translator.
• A deficiency of one or two of these qualities may be made up for by a fuller measure of the others.
• After January 6 the increasing sickness and the deficiency of food became the chief facts of the Siege.
• He shows them and us the reason for overwhelming fear as being a deficiency in faith.
• The party was small, but made up for this deficiency in numbers with zeal and violence.
• The result has been, that a deficiency in literature and science, and that superstition, and that an undue eagerness after money, has been fixed upon a portion of them.

Similar words containing FICIEN without suffix cy and without prefix de

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