shortfallnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈʃɔːt.fɔːl/us/ˈʃɔːrt.fɑːl/an amount that is less than the level that was expected or needed:
The drought caused serious shortfalls in the food supply.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- be at a premium idiom
- be thin on the ground idiom
- dearth
- deficiency
- deficient
- gold dust
- lacking
- late
- long on sth and short on sth idiom
- lousy
- meagre
- measly
- nearly
- rare
- scarce
- scarcity
- shortage
- sparse
- supply
- thin
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