Deficiency: alternatives and connections

A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.

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Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

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Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.

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Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

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General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.

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The condition or quality of being lean.

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Alt. of Meagreness

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The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.

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The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).

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Quality or condition of being scanty.

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The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.

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Alt. of Scarcity

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The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penu…

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Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

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The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in wi…

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The quality or state of being stringent.

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The quality or condition of being tight.

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To go up; to ascend.

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To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, defic…

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Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, defic…

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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness.

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The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc.

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Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.

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The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expen…

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The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expen…

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