deficiency
Deficiency in immunity is sometimes accompanied by frequent bacterial and viral infections.
She seems to be the perfect tennis player with no obvious deficiencies in her game.
Investigators believe that the accident was caused by a deficiency in the tyres of the landing gear.
A number of deficiencies in the way the report was prepared and presented compromised its credibility.
Deficiencies in the education system have been much in the news.新闻媒体对教育体制的种种不足进行了大量的报道。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Scarce, inadequate and not enough
be at a premiumidiom
be thin on the groundidiom
chronic shortage
dearth
dearth of something
gold dust
lack
lacking
like gold dustidiom
long on something and short on somethingidiom
lousy
meagre
scarcity
scrubby
shortage
shortfall
shortness
shy
skinny
thin
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