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Shortfall

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An instance of falling short, of not meeting a quota, an obligation, or more generally any expected target.

    "Due to a shortfall in revenue, we will have to make some cuts."

  2. 2
    the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required wordnet
  3. 3
    The amount by which such a quota, obligation, etc., was missed.

Etymology

Deverbal from fall short. By surface analysis, short + fall.

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