Usually means: Insufficient supply to meet demand.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word shortage:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. shortage: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shortage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shortage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shortage: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shortage: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shortage: Wordnik
  7. shortage: Wiktionary
  8. shortage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. shortage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. shortage: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. shortage: Dictionary.com
  12. shortage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Shortage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Shortage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. shortage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. shortage: Rhymezone
  17. shortage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. shortage: Free Dictionary
  19. shortage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. shortage: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. shortage: Wordnik
  22. shortage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Shortage: Inflation Glossary
  3. shortage: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shortage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shortage: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shortage: Idioms

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noun:  A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.

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