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 shortfall ['ʃɒ:tfɒ:l]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 不足, 不足量

[经] 缺少, 不足, 亏舱运费




    shortfall
    [ noun ]
    the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
    <noun.attribute>
    new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit


    1. Wool fetched the highest prices at auction for 18 months last week, thanks to a shortfall in supply, a rise in overseas demand and a sharply lower Kiwi dollar. The market indicator was 494 cents (153p) - 25 per cent up from early last month.
    2. Instead it suggests an annual shortfall of Pounds 200m a year. The report yesterday provided the basis of an angry condemnation by the British Medical Association of the closure plans.
    3. The output shortfall compared with trend is less than it was in the last two recessions in five of the G7 countries.
    4. The financial services company's 1988 loss was nearly four times the $258 million shortfall for the previous year.
    5. Eagle Star said most insurers would now examine such cases and could agree to pay out if they felt they would lose less than by going through an entire repossession. The insurer would still have the right to pursue the borrower for the shortfall.
    6. But since then symphony officials have said they faced a $985,000 shortfall.
    7. If Congress approved a budget with only modest increases from 1988, the agency would have a $171 million shortfall next year that would trigger a more serious round of station closings, Yost said.
    8. The city, which has been slow to follow through on many of the budget cuts it has announced, still must slash $465 million from its expenses by the close of its fiscal year June 30. The projected shortfall next year has grown to $3.5 billion.
    9. Reynolds also granted PTL permission to use $800,000 of the proceeds from property sales, normally frozen by the court during bankruptcy proceedings, to cover a shortfall at the ministry.
    10. The shortfall has led to increased prices for crude oil on world markets as well as hefty hikes for gasoline and heating oil sold on the retail level.
    11. The earlier figures showed a $43 billion deficit for the fourth quarter and a $171.2 shortfall for all of 1987.
    12. Although the $9.7 billion shortfall for March was the lowest monthly level in three years, it was regarded on Wall Street as further evidence of a resurgent economy.
    13. This included a Pounds 7m shortfall in expected income from co-productions.
    14. Just this week, for example, independent Gov. Lowell Weicker acknowledged that Connecticut faced a $175 million shortfall despite enacting a wage tax only three months earlier.
    15. "I think the shortfall (there) is far larger than anything they might wish to construe is going wrong with data storage," he said.
    16. In addition, purchasing of equipment for the Utah plant was delayed by a $37 million shortfall in funds for fiscal 1990.
    17. There may be a shortfall in the $35 million that Persian Gulf nations pledged to a U.N. emergency program, which provides food and health care for the 1.7 million Palestinians in the territories.
    18. Yost said the Reagan administration's proposed fiscal 1989 funding level of $2.98 billion would not enable the Coast Guard to reopen any of the nearly 30 stations and offices closed in February because of a $103 million shortfall in the current budget.
    19. The Vatican has projected a potential shortfall of nearly $20 million for the current year, following similar deficits reported for several years.
    20. In contrast, the state simply sold short-term notes (a record $4.1 billion this spring) to cover its shortfall, thereby avoiding unpleasant spending choices during this election year.
    21. Panetta said he believes the shortfall will be even higher _ closer to $140 billion or $150 billion.
    22. Judge Duffy also ruled that the company isn't required to make payments to the funds at this time and said the $3.1 billion shortfall in the funds, as calculated by the pension agency, may be too high.
    23. As the state's economy continued to suffer from recession, however, this failed to bring in as much revenue as hoped. This year, the state faces a shortfall estimated at Dollars 11bn-Dollars 12bn, for a total budget of Dollars 55bn-Dollars 60bn.
    24. After announcing a shortfall of $1.94 billion, caused primarily by overly optimistic income-tax forecasts, the state said it would put a freeze on hiring, equipment acquisitions, capital spending and new contracts for outside services.
    25. Nothing that has happened since then has led me to change that judgment for this year's settlement. The next area I considered to recover the shortfall in revenue was direct taxation.
    26. Wilder has said he will announce spending cuts next month to cope with a projected $300 million budget shortfall over the next two years.
    27. Combined with a shortfall in aid flows, this deficit converted a projected balance of payments surplus into a deficit of 1.8 per cent of GDP. The international environment is partly to blame.
    28. If the pace were sustained, the shortfall for all of fiscal 1989 would undershoot both the Bush administration's projection of a $163.3 billion deficit and the Congressional Budget Office's estimate of $159 billion.
    29. The claimed $99.7 billion shortfall allows Congress to claim to have met the $100 billion deficit target set by the Gramm-Rudman law for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.
    30. Saudi Arabia, the world's No. 1 crude exporter, and other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries have agreed to pump as much as they can to make up the shortfall.
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