shortage

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: short=age
• COUNT in NET: 2 in 2 verses (in OT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

shortage, n. 

 Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

shortage, n. (often foll. by of) a deficiency; an amount lacking (a shortage of 100 tons).

THESAURUS

shortage

absence, adulteration, arrear, arrearage, arrears, beggary, break, curtailment, dearth, decline, defalcation, default, defect, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, delinquency, deprivation, destitution, discontinuity, drought, erroneousness, failure, fallibility, falling short, famine, faultiness, gap, hiatus, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, impoverishment, impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, inexactitude, inexactness, inferiority, insufficiency, interval, lack, lacuna, mediocrity, missing link, need, omission, outage, patchiness, paucity, pinch, scantiness, scarcity, short measure, shortcoming, shortfall, sketchiness, slump, starvation, tightness, ullage, underage, undevelopment, unevenness, unperfectedness, unsoundness, want, wantage

ROGET THESAURUS

shortage

Incompleteness

N incompleteness, deficiency, short measure, shortcoming, insufficiency, imperfection, immaturity, half measures, defect, deficit, defalcation, omission, caret, shortage, interval, break, noncompletion, missing link, missing piece, missing part, gap, hole, lacuna, incomplete, imperfect, unfinished, uncompleted &c (complete), defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing, in default, in arrear, short of, hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy, crude, mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated, in progress, in hand, going on, proceeding, incompletely, by halves, caetera desunt, caret.