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Supply-and-demand problem
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shortage
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Word definitions for shortage in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1862, American English, from short + -age .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a food shortage ▪ He remembered the food shortages of the war years. a labour shortage ▪ Immigrants came into the country to fill the labour shortage. a water shortage ▪ There is a severe water shortage in many parts ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shortage \Short"age\, n. Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In economics , a shortage or excess demand is when the demand for a product or service exceeds its supply in a market . It is the opposite of an excess supply ( surplus ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required [syn: deficit , shortfall ] an acute insufficiency [syn: dearth , famine ]
Usage examples of shortage.
There were no shortages in the Allegiancy capital yet, though prices were soaring.
For nearly a century, the shortage of legally dissectable bodies pitted the anatomist against the private citizen.
Apparently, unlike our artificially developed oral contraceptives, these have no harmful side-effects, and are chiefly used in periods of drought or food shortages, so that children are not born who cannot be fed.
Agudists from Budapest, a shortage of cash obliged Perl to go outside the Zionist orbit for paying customers so that one of his stranded Betar contingents might continue its trip.
Although there is no shortage of urban blight and despair in Rochester, it is regularly deemed by pollsters to be one of the safest medium-sized cities in the nation.
With Sarmon still lying in a heap where Xanthon had knocked him, she would have to climb up to the rampart and flee to the gatehouse, where there would be no shortage of war wizards ready to teleport her back to Arabel.
I ran the simulations dozens of ways, altering variables such as subpopulation movements, materials shortages, and shifts in standards of living.
In normal times, there would have been fruit and food among the offerings, but with war shortages Otake-san tempered his traditionalism with common sense.
Guardians unfurnished this room some time ago, and we have a certain shortage of chairs.
And being located right next to an antihydrogen processing facility, he very much doubted there would be any power shortages here.
Tiber rose just enough to ensure that some of the public latrines backfilled and floated excrement out of their doors, a vegetable shortage developed when the Campus Martius and the Campus Vaticanus were covered with a few inches of water, and shoddily built high-rise insulae began to crumble into total collapse or suddenly manifested huge cracks in walls and foundations.
On top of this, industrial production began to decline, first because of a shortage of raw materials, and then because the dangerous bees began to harass ever larger areas.
The article went on to say that Bonita Vista had its own wells, so it was not tied to the Corban water supply and was not suffering the same shortage.
As there is no shortage of dealers in Paris anxious to take them, Boulonnais has instructed me that if they cannot be shown immediately here, then I am to return them to France.
But the events of the last few years, with the addition of the LANTIRN and the shortage of strike aircraft due to downsizing, had forced the Tomcat community to take a lead role in strike warfare.