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Shortage

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97%8Exact Match!
noun

• a small and inadequate amount

96%4Exact Match!
noun

• the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

verb

• be without

• To be insufficiently prepared

95%6Exact Match!
noun

• an acute insufficiency

• an insufficient quantity or number

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