Shortage vs Surplus - What's the difference?
shortage | surplus |
A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
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, title= That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
(legal) The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.
(legal) assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.
Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.
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As nouns the difference between shortage and surplus
is that shortage is a lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount while surplus is that which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.As an adjective surplus is
being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.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 * rationingsurplus
English
Noun
(en-noun)Antonyms
* lack * deficitAdjective
(-)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}