shortfall
11shortfall — noun Date: 1895 a failure to come up to expectation or need < a budget shortfall >; also the amount of such failure < a $2 million shortfall > …
12shortfall — [[t]ʃɔ͟ː(r)tfɔːl[/t]] shortfalls N COUNT: usu with supp If there is a shortfall in something, there is less of it than you need. The government has refused to make up a ₤30,000 shortfall in funding. Syn: deficit …
13shortfall — noun (C) the difference between the amount you have and the amount you need or expect: severe crop shortfalls (+ in/of): a shortfall in staffing levels | a shortfall of about 1 million …
14shortfall — noun a) An instance of not meeting a quota or of having an insufficient amount. Due to a shortfall in revenue we will have to make some cuts. b) The amount by which a quota is missed; the amount missing …
15shortfall — noun Shortfall is used after these nouns: ↑budget, ↑earnings, ↑funding, ↑pension …
16shortfall — loss, deficit Shoplifting is one of the reasons for the shortfall for the deficit …
17shortfall — / ʃɔ:tfɔ:l/ noun an amount which is missing which would make the total expected sum ● We had to borrow money to cover the shortfall between expenditure and revenue …
18shortfall — The lack of forces, equipment, personnel, materiel, or capability, reflected as the difference between the resources identified as a plan requirement and those apportioned to a combatant commander for planning, that would adversely affect the… …
19shortfall — /shawrt fawl /, n. 1. the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage. 2. the act or fact of falling short. [1890 95; SHORT + FALL; from v. phrase fall short] * * * …
20shortfall — Synonyms and related words: absence, arrear, arrearage, arrears, beggary, decline, defalcation, default, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, delinquency, deprivation, destitution, drought, failure, falling short, famine, imperfection,… …
