shortfall
nounEtymology
Deverbal from fall short. By surface analysis, short + fall.
Definitions
An instance of falling short, of not meeting a quota, an obligation, or more generally…
An instance of falling short, of not meeting a quota, an obligation, or more generally any expected target.
- Due to a shortfall in revenue, we will have to make some cuts.
The amount by which such a quota, obligation, etc., was missed.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for shortfall. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA