Shortage vs Shorthand - What's the difference?
shortage | shorthand |
A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
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, title= A compendious and rapid method of writing by substituting symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography; phonography
any brief or shortened way of saying or doing something
As nouns the difference between shortage and shorthand
is that shortage is a lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount while shorthand is a compendious and rapid method of writing by substituting symbols, for letters, words, etc; short writing; stenography; phonography.shortage
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.
Antonyms
* glut * mountain (as in butter mountain)See also
* drought * famine * ration * rationingshorthand
English
Noun
(en noun)- The jargon becomes a shorthand for these advanced concepts.