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 shortage ['ʃɒ:tidʒ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 不足, 缺乏

[化] 缺额

[经] 不足, 短少, 短缺额




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

    2. <noun.attribute>
      new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit
    3. an acute insufficiency

    4. <noun.state>


    Shortage \Short"age\, n.
    Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some
    requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

    1. There is a shortage of clinics, hospitals and classrooms; two years ago, Benitez said, he quit his job teaching high school history because of unruly students.
    2. So many night drivers have quit that Ramchand, who normally works days, is driving well into the night to help Express Taxi Service with its driver shortage.
    3. If it upsets the gilts market, this will put upward pressure on mortgage rates. In the discount market the Bank of England dispatched a shortage of Pounds 750m without difficulty.
    4. But National Power is sticking to its target of reducing dividend cover from 3.3 times to 2.5 times by 1995. Working capital is being released as surplus coal stocks are run down, so there is hardly a shortage of cash.
    5. Three-month sterling cash closed a little softer at 6 1/8 per cent following the small shortage of Pounds 1bn forecast by the Bank of England.
    6. "But a short-term experiment isn't appropriate" for a long-term, pervasive problem like the shortage of low-income housing, he says.
    7. The year-long study by Hartford Seminary's Center for Social and Religious Research was prompted by growing concern over a clergy shortage.
    8. The overriding cause is the shortage of labor.
    9. That mood in itself might end the crisis shortage, since it might soon be documented as a decline of consumer confidence.
    10. His other main point was that monetary policy needed support from wages and fiscal policy. The Bank of England cleared a Pounds 1.2bn money market shortage in its morning operations.
    11. Bad economic news might encourage enough domestic investors to buy the securities to make up for any shortage of foreign investors, said Marilyn Schaja, a money market economist at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp.
    12. As a result of Romania's severe energy shortage, however, there have been big cuts in aluminium output over the past three years.
    13. According to a company spokesman, Daisy's cash shortage is severe enough to prevent its customary purchase of Sun Microsystem workstations.
    14. Earlier it had provided Pounds 13m after forecasting a shortage of Pounds 500m.
    15. In the case of Romania Libera, the shortage created a new brand of crime, newspaper theft.
    16. Hong Kong's labor shortage prompts many businessmen to want immigration rules eased to admit more foreign workers, and construction begun on major projects like a new airport.
    17. The shortage already is apparent in the modest-priced units that Soviet immigrant families can afford on government housing subsidies of $237 monthly.
    18. Before the Tiananmen massacre, the big problem for many Jiangsu projects was the shortage of domestic funds following last year's retrenchment.
    19. Asked about these records, Ms. Bartola says some failures may have escaped her attention because of a staff shortage.
    20. Doug Nicoll, Chrysler's manager of manufacturing public relations, said Thursday the shortage resulted from a switch in plans for building Dodge Omnis and Plymouth Horizons in Kenosha.
    21. "It is well known the country has shortages of many things. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of rhetoric, labels and sometimes libel," he said.
    22. "Twelve infants were sufficient to show us this is not a feasible technique or solution" to the infant organ shortage, said Dr. Joyce Peabody, Loma Linda's chief of neonatology.
    23. But again there were difficulties removing a Pounds 1.55bn shortage, because dealers were unwilling to offer bills to the Bank of England amid rumours of base rate cuts.
    24. Along with the manpower shortage, Brock said "our children are being less well educated than we were.
    25. The church says milk-production restrictions in the wake of the 1986 nuclear accident in Chernobyl, U.S.S.R, had caused the milk shortage in Armenia, which also was devastated by earthquake a year ago.
    26. There is in fact a dire and increasing shortage of general-aviation airports to serve metropolitan areas.
    27. Since the International Natural Rubber Agreement came into being in 1979, it has faced periods of glut, shortage and now another time of relatively plentiful supplies.
    28. A Pounds 1.6bn daily shortage was easily despatched.
    29. It said the detainees were crowded into one van because of a shortage of such vehicles.
    30. That makes him hot property in a part of the country where a booming economy and low unemployment have forced up wages and created a severe labor shortage for the dairy farmer.
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