[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

shortage \short"age\, n.
   amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some
   requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

shortage
     n 1: the property of being an amount by which something is less
          than expected or required syn: deficit, shortfall
     2: an acute insufficiency syn: dearth, famine
see also:
deficit shortfall dearth famine 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

71 moby thesaurus words for "shortage":
   absence, adulteration, arrear, arrearage, arrears, beggary, break,
   curtailment, dearth, decline, defalcation, default, defect,
   defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, delinquency,
   deprivation, destitution, discontinuity, drought, erroneousness,
   failure, fallibility, falling short, famine, faultiness, gap,
   hiatus, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, impoverishment,
   impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness,
   inexactitude, inexactness, inferiority, insufficiency, interval,
   lack, lacuna, mediocrity, missing link, need, omission, outage,
   patchiness, paucity, pinch, scantiness, scarcity, short measure,
   shortcoming, shortfall, sketchiness, slump, starvation, tightness,
   ullage, underage, undevelopment, unevenness, unperfectedness,
   unsoundness, want, wantage

Shortage >> S Words
Shortage, definition of term: Shortage
shortage_pag1.html

Shortage Designation: HPSA & MUA/MUP
...Shortage Designation. * The Shortage Designation Branch in the HRSA ... More than 34 federal programs depend on the shortage designation to ... ..
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/shortage/, score=100, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 7:29 pm

AACN - Media - Nursing Shortage Resource
...About the Nursing Shortage. *. Nursing Shortage Fact Sheet *. ... Buerhaus cautions that the current nursing shortage is far from over ... ..
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Media/shortageresource.htm, score=95, date indexed=January 20, 2006, 4:04 am

Redirect to HPSA Find
...Health Professional Shortage Areas. The HPSA Search has been improved ... ..
http://belize.hrsa.gov/newhpsa/newhpsa.cfm, score=95, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 7:46 pm

Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage
...... there is no shortage of ``bodies,'' i.e. there is no shortage of ... shortage of programmers? The only ones claiming a shortage are the ... ..
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html, score=94, date indexed=January 22, 2006, 7:36 am

NurseWeek: Nursing Shortage
...An acute worldwide shortage of nurses is expected to become much worse ... Survey provides springboard into shortage issues, brings solutions to ... ..
http://www.nurseweek.com/news/nursingshortage.asp, score=90, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 7:55 pm

Welcome to the Energy Crisis
... ..
http://www.energiekrise.de/e/, score=85, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 6:34 pm

Cement shortage hits US housing boom | csmonitor.com
...The worldwide shortage began to be felt across Asia first, then hit ... Mr. Latham and others say the current shortage is exposing both the ... ..
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0817/p03s02-usec.html, score=67, date indexed=January 24, 2006, 11:46 am

...Causes of the Shortage in Maryland The nursing shortage in Maryland ... currently has a nursing shortage and this shortage is projected to ... ..
http://www.umaryland.edu/healthworkforce/Documents/Report.doc.doc, score=65, date indexed=January 4, 2006, 5:56 am

Vaccine Shortage Update - Keep Kids Healthy
...If your children missed a vaccine because of a shortage, you might ... To help avoid a shortage, the AAP, CDC, and AAFP, is recommending that ... ..
http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/welcome/immunizations/vaccine_shortage_update.html, score=61, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 1:21 pm

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