Shortage is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHORTAGE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an insufficient supply
• a state or situation in which something needed cannot be obtained in sufficient amounts
• Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
• the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
• an acute insufficiency
• deficiency
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an insufficient supply or amount

Words related to SHORTAGE

deficiency21 shortages13 wantage11

Words that contain SHORTAGE

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How to use SHORTAGE in a sentence

• Unemployment gave place to a shortage of labor sooner there than elsewhere.
• I saw, one summer, acres of garden truck at its prime ploughed under in Connecticut because of a shortage of labor.
• Gradually, however, there became a shortage of marriageable women, and this resulted in mysterious raids being made on neighboring settlements.
• We had to advance and risk the shortage of supplies, or we would never reach the Central Railway.
• The cause, though Renzo did not at the time discover it, was the shortage of the bread supply.
• Various writers, brooding over the coming shortage of men, have jumped to the conclusion that polygamy is among the probabilities of the near future.
• Lord Kitchener has asked for another 300,000 men, and speaks confidently of our soon being able to make good the shortage of ammunition.
• For long journeys the rivers were of more importance, since transport by wagon was always expensive owing to the shortage of draught animals.
• The waggons of provisions, therefore, which follow the troops, and are filled daily, must come up with them the same day, or there will be a shortage of food.
• There was also some shortage of shells and ammunition for guns and rifles, while of trench mortars a division had but few.
• The dominant public sector continues to be plagued by labor, financial, and management problems, and much of the private sector is hobbled by a shortage of capital.
• They were propelled by climatic changes which caused a shortage of the food supply, and by the rapid increase of population under peaceful conditions.
• The soldiers grumbled bitterly at the exertions of the march, the shortage of provisions, and the strict discipline.
• Like a good many other people I was led to history not only by a shortage of lighter books at home, but also by curiosity aroused by the novels of Sir Walter Scott.
• As I see it, the time is coming when increased population and shortage of available land will make prime, beef nearly as scarce as turkey and venison are today.
• This sudden and marked drop in the amount imported was due to shortage of shipping.
• An excess of moisture is more unfavorable to the production of seed than a shortage in the same.
• The shortage of rolling stock available did not permit of troops, or, at that time, even of officers accompanying troops, travelling in passenger coaches.
• Hence, shortage of ammunition and shortage of water, which last was the worse felt to-day.
• Worse than this, however, the winter turned out the worst since 1788, for shortage of food.
• The strike takes place as predicted and then owing to war conditions in Europe, there comes a coal shortage throughout the land.
• The housing shortage which has distressed New York has reached even to Vellore.
• When any shortage is perceived in the accounts, a new count is requested and made.
• I see you note here one hundred and fifty pounds shortage.
• Just as the final clauses of the combine agreement were to be signed, there appeared a shortage in the cotton-crop, and prices began to soar.

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