Shortage
noun
A situation when there is not enough of the things that are needed.
There is a serious shortage of food and drinking water.
Often appears as...
- shortage of food
- shortage of time
noun
A situation when there is not enough of the things that are needed.
There is a serious shortage of food and drinking water.
Often appears as...
- shortage of food
- shortage of time
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word 'shortage' implies a problem or a negative situation that needs addressing.
The hospital faced a critical shortage of nurses.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Impacts
'Shortage' often indicates a social issue, affecting communities or larger groups.
After the drought, the village experienced a food shortage.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Response
Using 'shortage' can evoke an emotional response, like concern or urgency.
Due to a shortage of volunteers, the event may be cancelled.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word 'shortage' implies a problem or a negative situation that needs addressing.
The hospital faced a critical shortage of nurses.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Impacts
'Shortage' often indicates a social issue, affecting communities or larger groups.
After the drought, the village experienced a food shortage.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Response
Using 'shortage' can evoke an emotional response, like concern or urgency.
Due to a shortage of volunteers, the event may be cancelled.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word 'shortage' implies a problem or a negative situation that needs addressing.
The hospital faced a critical shortage of nurses.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Impacts
'Shortage' often indicates a social issue, affecting communities or larger groups.
After the drought, the village experienced a food shortage.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Response
Using 'shortage' can evoke an emotional response, like concern or urgency.
Due to a shortage of volunteers, the event may be cancelled.
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Elon Musk: A future...
for a robot that can work longer hours, a pretty rapid replacement of certain types of jobs. How worried should the world be about that? I wouldn't worry about the sort of, putting people out of a job thing. I think we're actually going to have, and already do have, a massive shortage of labor.
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Gaming can make a better...
The oil shortage is fictional, but we put enough online content out there for you to believe that it's real, and to live your real life as if we've run out of oil. So when you come to the game, you sign up, tell us where you live, and then we give you real-time news videos,
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Population pyramids:...
As you can see, population pyramids tell us far more about a country than just a set of numbers, by showing both where it's been and where it's headed within a single image. And in today's increasingly interconnected world, facing issues such as food shortages,
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What is love? - Brad...
A cult? A neurological phenomenon? There's no shortage of answers. Some are all-encompassing. It conquers all. It's all you need. It's all there is. These are all comparisons, though, ways of defining it by contrast, by saying it's more important
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A curable condition that...
for as little as six dollars. Why then, with all these advances, are there still so many blind people in the world? The main issue is access to health care, with poor infrastructure and a shortage of doctors being a major barrier in many regions.
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What gives a dollar bill...
making you want to spend it right away. While this would stimulate business, it would also encourage overconsumption, or hoarding commodities, like food and fuel, raising their prices and leading to consumer shortages and even more inflation.
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Gelada Baboon Sexual...
yet paradoxically the females need fierce guardians to protect them from being sexually harassed by unattached males there's no shortage of them gangs of frustrated young bachelors lurk around the edges of the troop sexually
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50 Years Ago, This Was a...
love the natural world in a respect respect for when I get out of the University I took a job so vacuum cleaner shortage or I went into the fast-food business I've teamed up with the young man bill Church and it was
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Elon Musk talks Twitter,...
not not people out of work but actually still a shortage labor even in the future uh but this really will be a world of abundance any goods and services uh will be available to anyone who wants
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How to rebuild the world...
it works and this isn't some kind of Fringe hobby during the oil shortages of the Second World War there are over a million gasifier powered cars wood powered crop wood powered cars across
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Elon Musk: A future...
for a robot that can work longer hours, a pretty rapid replacement of certain types of jobs. How worried should the world be about that? I wouldn't worry about the sort of, putting people out of a job thing. I think we're actually going to have, and already do have, a massive shortage of labor.
Video examples
Gaming can make a better...
The oil shortage is fictional, but we put enough online content out there for you to believe that it's real, and to live your real life as if we've run out of oil. So when you come to the game, you sign up, tell us where you live, and then we give you real-time news videos,
Video examples
Population pyramids:...
As you can see, population pyramids tell us far more about a country than just a set of numbers, by showing both where it's been and where it's headed within a single image. And in today's increasingly interconnected world, facing issues such as food shortages,
Video examples
What is love? - Brad...
A cult? A neurological phenomenon? There's no shortage of answers. Some are all-encompassing. It conquers all. It's all you need. It's all there is. These are all comparisons, though, ways of defining it by contrast, by saying it's more important
Video examples
A curable condition that...
for as little as six dollars. Why then, with all these advances, are there still so many blind people in the world? The main issue is access to health care, with poor infrastructure and a shortage of doctors being a major barrier in many regions.
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What gives a dollar bill...
making you want to spend it right away. While this would stimulate business, it would also encourage overconsumption, or hoarding commodities, like food and fuel, raising their prices and leading to consumer shortages and even more inflation.
Video examples
Gelada Baboon Sexual...
yet paradoxically the females need fierce guardians to protect them from being sexually harassed by unattached males there's no shortage of them gangs of frustrated young bachelors lurk around the edges of the troop sexually
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50 Years Ago, This Was a...
love the natural world in a respect respect for when I get out of the University I took a job so vacuum cleaner shortage or I went into the fast-food business I've teamed up with the young man bill Church and it was
Video examples
Elon Musk talks Twitter,...
not not people out of work but actually still a shortage labor even in the future uh but this really will be a world of abundance any goods and services uh will be available to anyone who wants
Video examples
How to rebuild the world...
it works and this isn't some kind of Fringe hobby during the oil shortages of the Second World War there are over a million gasifier powered cars wood powered crop wood powered cars across
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Ranbir Kapoor
Indian Actor
Money has never been my drive. I have never seen the shortage of money in my life, so for me, I don't want to buy a silk pillow or a private jet... My drive is to achieve more than what my grandfather achieved; my drive is to make a name for myself, get rid of this 'star son' tag that has been attached to me.
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John Collins
American Basketball Player
COVID has caused no shortage of problems. One of them is the possibility we could be off for nine months. That's too long. We're not in the playoffs, summer league has been canceled and training camp is pushed back. We need some help, but we aren't really getting it.
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Paul Dirac
British Physicist
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.
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Roop Durgapal
Indian Actress
When I read in newspapers that farmers are dying because of water shortage, I felt deeply pained that we have best of everything, yet we complain so much, whereas there are people who do not even have access to basic necessities of life.
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Aaron Schock
American Politician
Exercise is more important than diet for me because it's a twofer. It keeps me in good physical shape, and it relieves stress. And when you're a representative of the public, there's never a shortage of things to do.
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Richard Russo
American Novelist
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.
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Sucheta Dalal
India has no shortage of deserving causes or good leaders; there is only short supply of activists and people who are willing to support their causes.
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Xavier Niel
French Businessman
The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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Roddy Llewellyn
British Journalist
I'm terrified about the world food shortages. Vegetables could quite easily become tomorrow's currency.
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Jonathan Ames
American Author
There's no shortage of material in life.
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Ranbir Kapoor
Indian Actor
Money has never been my drive. I have never seen the shortage of money in my life, so for me, I don't want to buy a silk pillow or a private jet... My drive is to achieve more than what my grandfather achieved; my drive is to make a name for myself, get rid of this 'star son' tag that has been attached to me.
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John Collins
American Basketball Player
COVID has caused no shortage of problems. One of them is the possibility we could be off for nine months. That's too long. We're not in the playoffs, summer league has been canceled and training camp is pushed back. We need some help, but we aren't really getting it.
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Paul Dirac
British Physicist
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.
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Roop Durgapal
Indian Actress
When I read in newspapers that farmers are dying because of water shortage, I felt deeply pained that we have best of everything, yet we complain so much, whereas there are people who do not even have access to basic necessities of life.
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Aaron Schock
American Politician
Exercise is more important than diet for me because it's a twofer. It keeps me in good physical shape, and it relieves stress. And when you're a representative of the public, there's never a shortage of things to do.
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Richard Russo
American Novelist
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.
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Sucheta Dalal
India has no shortage of deserving causes or good leaders; there is only short supply of activists and people who are willing to support their causes.
Quote examples
Xavier Niel
French Businessman
The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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Roddy Llewellyn
British Journalist
I'm terrified about the world food shortages. Vegetables could quite easily become tomorrow's currency.
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Jonathan Ames
American Author
There's no shortage of material in life.
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