Definition of Shortage

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Definition of Shortage
	Shortage Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts. Related Definitions: Amount, As, By, Deficiency, Determined, Extent, In, Money, Of, Or, Requirement, Shortage, Some, Standard

Shortage Quotations

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Bill Gates

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Germaine Greer

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
Doug Larson

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Doug Larson

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Paul Dirac

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.
Sean Connery

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
David Herbert Lawrence

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
Annie Dillard

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.
Jeanne Calment

Shortage Translations

shortage in Danish is mangel
shortage in Dutch is afwezigheid, gebrek, gemis, euvel
shortage in Italian is strettezza, difetto
shortage in Portuguese is falta
shortage in Spanish is falta, escasez
shortage in Swedish is brist

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