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A shortfall is the hole between what you have and what you need, or what you thought you would have. If a hospital needs 30 nurses and only 27 come, the shortfall is three. News and offices like this word: a budget shortfall, a rainfall shortfall, a shortfall in donations. It is a cool counting word, not an angry one. You can have a shortfall without anyone stealing; the money or the rain simply did not arrive in full. Though actually, people sometimes say shortfall when they mean a deficit. A deficit is more “we are in the red.” A shortfall is the missing piece that got us there.
短缺、不足額（還差多少；不是已經虧成「赤字」的那一步）
組成從 fall short 來的名詞。拆開看是 short + fall：該到的量沒到，掉在缺口裡。
同家族的字
- shortnot enough
- fallthe fall in fall short
- fall shortthe verb this noun was built from
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
shortfallnoun
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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.
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The amount by which such a quota, obligation, etc., was missed.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。