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Abscence vs Shortage - What's the difference?

abscence | shortage |

As a noun shortage is

a lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.

abscence

Not English

Abscence has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'abscence':

abacinate, abaisance, absentee, absence, absinthe, afghanite, apocentre, absynthe, apjohnite

shortage

English

Noun

(wikipedia shortage) (en noun)
  • A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.

    Antonyms

    * glut * mountain (as in butter mountain)

    Related terms

    * outage

    See also

    * drought * famine * ration * rationing