shortfall - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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• short-fall

Synthetic form of fall short, from short +‎ fall.

shortfall (plural shortfalls)

1. 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.

2. The amount by which such a quota, obligation, etc., was missed.

• closure shortfall
• force shortfall
• implementation shortfall
• shortfall constraint
• shortfall risk

• fall short