shortfall

Converse of object

• rectify: The Council therefore seeks to work in partnership with the private sector to rectify shortfalls in provision.
• redress: Urgent steps are now necessary to redress the shortfall.
• predict: The UK Govt predicting a shortfall of over 1 million homes in the next ten years.
• offset: Payments might be made based on actual versus desired wind speeds to offset budget shortfalls.
• face: The decline in stock markets has left many British retirees facing a huge shortfall in their expected incomes.
• overcome: If we do not meet our aims we work pro-actively to overcome any shortfall.

Preposition: in

• funding: There will be a shortfall in the funding needed to achieve Decent Homes.
• revenue: The shortfall in tax revenue was supplemented by borrowing.

Adjective modifier

• projected: Also, these figures don't appear to take into account the projected shortfall, which I can only assume is not entirely relevant.
• anticipated: Lifting the ban on fishmeal in ruminant feeds would play a significant role in making up the anticipated shortfall in protein.
• estimated: With an estimated shortfall of some 80,000 programmers in the UK, one option would be to send the work offshore.
• unexpected: An unexpected mortgage shortfall is a real burden, added to by a sudden hike in future payments.
• serious: This resulted in government funding to sort out serious shortfalls in cycle parking at 200 sites.

Modifies a noun

• debt: In 1996 he was pursued for a mortgage shortfall debt claim of £ 44,000.

Noun used with modifier

• endowment: The most up-to-date FSA figures on endowment shortfall sizes are from last summer.
• mortgage: In respect of the mortgage shortfall of £ 23,000, several complicated issues come into play.
• funding: Despite the funding shortfall, we are going to make a start.
• staffing: The return of these officers over the next year will ease some of the current staffing shortfall.
• budget: Despite these actions there remained an ongoing budget shortfall of around £ 1m.
• revenue: His grandmother to fill revenue shortfalls also for variety.