deficiency
25 02 2008Nouns
1. (n.) deficiency, lack, want;
- the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable;
- “there is a serious lack of insight into the problem”; “water is the critical deficiency in desert regions”; “for want of a nail the shoe was lost”;
2. (n.) deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency;
- lack of an adequate quantity or number;
- “the inadequacy of unemployment benefits”;
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