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de·fi·cien·cy

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–noun, plural -cies.

1.	the state of being deficient; lack; incompleteness; insufficiency.

2.	the amount lacked; a deficit.

[Origin: 1625–35; < LL déficientia, L déficient- (s. of déficiéns). See deficient, -ency

]

—Synonyms 1. shortage, inadequacy, paucity, scarcity.

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de·fi·cien·cy Audio Help (dĭ-fĭsh'ən-sē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. de·fi·cien·cies

The quality or condition of being deficient; incompleteness or inadequacy.
A lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health; an insufficiency: a nutritional deficiency.

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deficiency
noun
1.	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" [syn: lack]
2.	lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" [syn: insufficiency] [ant: adequacy]

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deˈficiency noun — plural deˈficiencies

(a) shortage or absence of what is needed

Arabic:	نَقْص، نُقْصان
Chinese (Simplified):	缺乏
Chinese (Traditional):	缺乏
Czech:	nedostatek
Danish:	mangelfuldhed; utilstrækkelighed; ufuldkommenhed
Dutch:	tekort
Estonian:	(millegi) puudus
Finnish:	puute
French:	manque
German:	der Mangel
Greek:	έλλειψη
Hungarian:	hiány
Icelandic:	skortur, vöntun
Indonesian:	kekurangan
Italian:	scarsità, mancanza

Japanese:	不足
Latvian:	trūkums
Lithuanian:	stoka
Norwegian:	mangel, skort, mangelfullhet
Polish:	niedobór
Portuguese (Brazil):	deficiência
Portuguese (Portugal):	deficiência
Romanian:	lipsă, deficienţă
Russian:	недостаток; дефицит
Slovak:	nedostatok
Slovenian:	pomanjkanje
Spanish:	deficiencia
Swedish:	bristfällighet, ofullständighet
Turkish:	yetersizlik, eksiklik