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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
deficiency
1. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable (Freq. 6) - 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, want • Derivationally related forms: want (for: want), deficient, lack (for: lack) • Hypernyms: need, demand • Hyponyms: absence, dearth, famine, shortage, deficit, mineral deficiency, shortness, stringency, tightness 2. lack of an adequate quantity or number (Freq. 2) - the inadequacy of unemployment benefits • Syn: insufficiency, inadequacy • Ant: adequacy (for: inadequacy), sufficiency (for: insufficiency) • Derivationally related forms: deficient, insufficient (for: insufficiency) • Hypernyms: amount • Hyponyms: meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, deficit, shortage, shortfall, scarcity, scarceness, slenderness
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