deficiency

de·fi·cien·cy  (d-fshn-s)

n. pl. de·fi·cien·cies

1. The quality or condition of being deficient; incompleteness or inadequacy.

2. A lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health; an insufficiency: a nutritional deficiency.

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deficiency [dɪˈfɪʃənsɪ]

n pl -cies

1. the state or quality of being deficient

2. a lack or insufficiency; shortage

3. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Accounting & Book-keeping) another word for deficit

4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) Biology the absence of a gene or a region of a chromosome normally present

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	deficiency - the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "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" lack, want absence - the state of being absent; "he was surprised by the absence of any explanation" need, demand - a condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs" dearth, famine, shortage - an acute insufficiency deficit - a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits" mineral deficiency - lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism shortness - the condition of being short of something; "there was no shortness of money"; "can cause shortness of breath" stringency, tightness - a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
	2.	deficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" inadequacy, insufficiency amount - the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion; "an adequate amount of food for four people" exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness, poorness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot deficit, shortage, shortfall - the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit" scarceness, scarcity - a small and inadequate amount slenderness - the quality of being slight or inadequate; "he knew the slenderness of my wallet"; "the slenderness of the chances that anything would be done"; "the slenderness of the evidence"

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deficiency

noun

1. lack, want, deficit, absence, shortage, deprivation, inadequacy, scarcity, dearth, privation, insufficiency, scantiness They did tests for signs of vitamin deficiency.
lack abundance, sufficiency, adequacy, surfeit, superfluity

2. failing, fault, weakness, defect, flaw, drawback, shortcoming, imperfection, frailty, demerit the most serious deficiency in their air defence

Translations

deficiency [dɪˈfɪʃənsɪ]

A. N

1. (gen) → deficiencia f; (= lack) → falta f (Med) (= weakness) → debilidad f
vitamin deficiency → avitaminosis f, déficit m vitamínico

2. (in system, plan, character etc) → defecto m

3. (Fin) → déficit m

B. CPD deficiency disease N → mal m carencial

deficiency [dɪˈfɪʃ^ənsi] n

(= inadequacy) → insuffisance f, faiblesse f

[vitamin, mineral] → carence f

(in number) → insuffisance m
deficiency disease n → maladie f de carence

deficiency

n (= shortage) → Mangel m; (Fin) → Defizit nt, → Fehlbetrag m; (= defect: in character, system) → Schwäche f; vitamin/iron deficiency → Vitamin-/Eisenmangel m

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deficiency:

deficiency disease

n (Med) → Mangelkrankheit f

deficiency guarantee

n (Fin) → Ausfallbürgschaft f

deficiency payment

n (Fin) → Ausgleichszahlung f

deficiency [dɪˈfɪʃ/ənsɪ] n

a. (of goods) → mancanza, insufficienza; (of vitamins, minerals, protein) → carenza

b. (in system, plan) → carenza

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deficiency [dɪˈfɪʃ/ənsɪ] n

a. (of goods) → mancanza, insufficienza; (of vitamins, minerals, protein) → carenza

b. (in system, plan) → carenza