SHORTFALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shortfall mean? 

• SHORTFALL (noun)
  The noun SHORTFALL has 1 sense:

1. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

  Familiarity information: SHORTFALL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHORTFALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

deficit; shortage; shortfall

Context example:

new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit

Hypernyms ("shortfall" is a kind of...):

deficiency; inadequacy; insufficiency (lack of an adequate quantity or number)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shortfall"):

oxygen deficit (temporary oxygen shortage in cells resulting from strenuous exercise)