Shortage vs Vacancy - What's the difference?
shortage | vacancy |
A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
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, title= An unoccupied position or job.
An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
Empty space.
*1993 , James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love , Book II:
*:Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy [...].
Lack of intelligence or understanding.
(physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice
As nouns the difference between shortage and vacancy
is that shortage is a lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount while vacancy is an unoccupied position or job.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.