This city will suffer from an acute water shortage unless it rains soon.
Source: tatoeba (18772)
Shortage
//ˈʃɔː(ɹ)tɪd͡ʒ//
Synonyms for "shortage" (78 found)
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Related words (39)
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5 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesdistinct from
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
73 translations across 32 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σπάνις noun (lack or deficiency)
Arabic
1 entries- عَجْز noun (lack or deficiency)
Armenian
1 entries- պակասություն noun (lack or deficiency)
Assamese
2 entries- অনাটন noun (lack or deficiency)
- নাটনি noun (lack or deficiency)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- qıtlıq noun (lack or deficiency)
- çatışmazlıq noun (lack or deficiency)
Bulgarian
2 entries- липса noun (lack or deficiency)
- недостиг noun (lack or deficiency)
Catalan
1 entries- manca noun (lack or deficiency)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 短缺 noun (lack or deficiency)
- 緊缺 /紧缺 noun (lack or deficiency)
Esperanto
1 entries- malabundo noun (lack or deficiency)
Finnish
2 entries- pula noun (lack or deficiency)
- puute noun (lack or deficiency)
French
4 entries- défaut noun (lack or deficiency)
- déficit noun (lack or deficiency)
- insuffisance noun (lack or deficiency)
- pénurie noun (lack or deficiency)
German
2 entries- Knappheit noun (lack or deficiency)
- Mangel noun (lack or deficiency)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌹𐌽𐌰𐍃𐍃𐌿𐍃 noun (lack or deficiency)
Hebrew
1 entries- מַחְסוֹר noun (lack or deficiency)
Hindi
3 entries- अपर्याप्तता noun (lack or deficiency)
- अभाव noun (lack or deficiency)
- कमी noun (lack or deficiency)
Hungarian
1 entries- hiány noun (lack or deficiency)
Italian
4 entries- carenza noun (lack or deficiency)
- insufficienza noun (lack or deficiency)
- mancanza noun (lack or deficiency)
- penuria noun (lack or deficiency)
Japanese
2 entries- 不足 noun (lack or deficiency)
- 欠損 noun (lack or deficiency)
Korean
2 entries- 부족 noun (lack or deficiency)
- 흠손 noun (lack or deficiency)
Latin
1 entries- inopia noun (lack or deficiency)
Macedonian
2 entries- не́достиг noun (lack or deficiency)
- недо́статок noun (lack or deficiency)
Māori
3 entries- kōpaka noun (lack or deficiency)
- kōpakatanga noun (lack or deficiency)
- ngōuruuru noun (lack or deficiency)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- mangel noun (lack or deficiency)
- underskudd noun (lack or deficiency)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- mangel noun (lack or deficiency)
Portuguese
3 entries- carência noun (lack or deficiency)
- falta noun (lack or deficiency)
- insuficiência noun (lack or deficiency)
Romanian
2 entries- deficit noun (lack or deficiency)
- penurie noun (lack or deficiency)
Russian
4 entries- дефици́т noun (lack or deficiency)
- недоста́ток noun (lack or deficiency)
- недоста́точность noun (lack or deficiency)
- нехва́тка noun (lack or deficiency)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- cion noun (lack or deficiency)
- gainne noun (lack or deficiency)
- gainnead noun (lack or deficiency)
Spanish
4 entries- carecimiento noun (lack or deficiency)
- carencia noun (lack or deficiency)
- carestía noun (lack or deficiency)
- deficiencia noun (lack or deficiency)
Swahili
1 entries- uhaba noun (lack or deficiency)
Thai
2 entries- การขาดแคลน noun (lack or deficiency)
- ความขาดแคลน noun (lack or deficiency)
Turkish
2 entries- azlık noun (lack or deficiency)
- kesinti noun (lack or deficiency)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The shortage of engineers is the greatest bottleneck to the development of our company.
Source: tatoeba (20052)
We are suffering from a severe water shortage this summer.
Source: tatoeba (22975)
There is a shortage of money in Brian's wallet and bank account.
Source: tatoeba (34301)
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