Hardship vs Shortage - What's the difference?
hardship | shortage |
(countable or uncountable) Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
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As nouns the difference between hardship and shortage
is that hardship is (countable or uncountable) difficulty or trouble; hard times while shortage is a lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.hardship
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(en noun)- He has survived periods of financial hardship before.
shortage
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(wikipedia shortage) (en noun)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.