Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

What is the noun for shortages?

What's the noun for shortages? Here's the word you're looking for.

short
  1. A short circuit.
  2. A short film.
  3. Used to indicate a short-length version of a size
  4. (baseball) A shortstop.
  5. (finance) A short seller.
  6. (finance) A short sale.
  7. A summary account.
  8. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
  9. (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
  10. Synonyms:
shorts
  1. Pants worn primarily in the warm weather that do not go lower than the knees.
  2. Underwear bottoms.
  3. (uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
  4. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
  5. Short, inferior hemp.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “Even at our top restaurants shorts and jandals are not uncommon in the summer months.”
      “And she sported a pair of white cotton shorts on the beach and an acrylic and cotton blend sweater along with some white sneakers.”
      “His waist was thin and his hips narrow where the end of the shirt tucked into the back waistband of the shorts.”
shorty
  1. (informal) A short person.
  2. (informal) A term of endearment for a child, younger sibling, shorter person, etc.
  3. (slang, chiefly African American Vernacular) A child.
  4. (slang, chiefly African American Vernacular) A girlfriend.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Her revue included vernacular forms like the shimmy, black bottom, shorty George and the cakewalk.”
      “Need I remind you the countless hours you spent crying because no one wanted to be friends with the shorty?”
      “I had this dude in a suit that kept constantly bothering me and my shorty while we were trying to have a convo.”
shortening
shortness
  1. (uncountable) The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being short.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The rotundity of his belly was considerably increased by the shortness of his stature.”
      “The High Commissioner replied that this problem was being considered by his Office and that a paper could be prepared which, in view of the shortness of time available, might perhaps be presented to the Executive Committee itself.”
      “It is a warning that the shortness of the description of any given event is no certain criterion of its duration.”
shorter
  1. (colloquial) A short, a short seller: one who engages in short selling.
shortage
  1. A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There is no shortage of examples of share prices leaping suspiciously before a bid.”
      “There's no shortage of government officials who think they're being laudably tough while they smother human empathy.”
      “One impact that land shortage has had is on the availability of cheap rental accommodation.”
shortener
  1. One who, or that which, shortens.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Betaworks has developed some Web tools from scratch, like Bit.ly, a URL shortener, and Chartbeat, a real-time Web analytics service.”
      “We use a method which consists of reducing the growth of this leader by applying a shortener with the help of brushes.”
      “The tub is shortened by plugging the shortener into the preformed hollows in the interior of the tub for 3 tub lengths.”
shortestness
  1. The quality of being shortest.
shorts
  1. plural of short
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Even at our top restaurants shorts and jandals are not uncommon in the summer months.”
      “And she sported a pair of white cotton shorts on the beach and an acrylic and cotton blend sweater along with some white sneakers.”
      “His waist was thin and his hips narrow where the end of the shirt tucked into the back waistband of the shorts.”
shortenings
shorteners
  1. plural of shortener
shortnesses
shortages
  1. plural of shortage
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “By hitting production and refining capacity it has pushed up an already high oil price, lifted petrol prices and led to shortages.”
      “Export subsidies help to provide them with a supply of products at reasonable prices and do much to alleviate food shortages.”
      “Currently, American businesses are experiencing acute shortages of highly skilled IT professionals.”
shorters
  1. plural of shorter
shorties
  1. plural of shorty
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Unfortunately, however, wee Walter then tried to back up his arguments by citing a number of other shorties who were a hit with the ladies.”
      “It also has a surprising number of rides for shorties, including the Buffalo Coaster, which loops out over the lake.”
      “It's going into the kitchen so we can finally move our microwave into a place it can be reached by shorties like me.”
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
9-letter Words Starting With
Find Nouns
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024