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Shortage vs Shortfall - What's the difference?

shortage | shortfall |

As nouns the difference between shortage and shortfall

is that shortage is a lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount while shortfall is an instance of not meeting a quota or of having an insufficient amount.

shortage

English

Noun

(wikipedia shortage) (en noun)
  • A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
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    • , 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

    shortfall

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • The amount by which a quota is missed; the amount missing.

    • Derived terms

    * closure shortfall * force shortfall * implementation shortfall * shortfall constraint * shortfall risk

    Anagrams

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