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Deficiency definition

dĭ-fĭshən-sē
deficiencies
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The quality or condition of being deficient; incompleteness or inadequacy.
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A shortage.
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The definition of a deficiency is something that is lacking, or something that isn't sufficient or good enough.

When you do not get enough education, this is an example of something that can be seen as a deficiency when you are looking for a job.

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The amount of shortage; deficit.
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(uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
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(countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
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(geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
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A lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health.

A nutritional deficiency.

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The quality or state of being deficient; absence of something essential; incompleteness.
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Noun

Singular:
deficiency
Plural:
deficiencies

Origin of deficiency

  • deficit +‎ -ency

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Deficiency Sentence Examples

  • As it is a staple food with the poorer classes, the deficiency is made up through importation.

  • This deficiency is made up by the addition of auxiliaries or suffixes.

  • There is, however, a yearly deficiency of more than £6000.

  • Beri-beri is a dietetic deficiency disease which manifests itself by cardiac weakness with shortness of breath, swelling of the legs and peripheral neuritis with numbness of the limbs and weakness.

  • In consequence of this deficiency he failed to pay the tribute due from the people to Ptolemy, as his fathers had done, and is set down by Josephus as a miser who cared nothing for the protest of Ptolemy's special ambassador.

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