Usually means: Insufficient supply to meet demand.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word shortage:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. shortage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shortage: Merriam-Webster
  3. shortage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shortage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shortage: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shortage: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shortage: Wordnik
  8. shortage: Wiktionary
  9. shortage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shortage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shortage: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shortage: Dictionary.com
  13. shortage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Shortage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Shortage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. shortage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. shortage: Rhymezone
  18. shortage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. shortage: FreeDictionary.org
  20. shortage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. shortage: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. shortage: Wordnik
  23. shortage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  2. Shortage: Inflation Glossary
  3. shortage: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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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