Shortage vs Deficient - What's the difference?
shortage | deficient |
A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
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Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
As a noun shortage
is a lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.As an adjective deficient is
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English
Noun
(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.