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Synonyms for deficiency
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dih-fish-uhn-see |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈfɪʃ ən si |
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Définition of deficiency
Origin :- 1630s, from deficience (mid-15c.) + -cy; or from Late Latin deficientia, from deficientem (see deficient).
- noun imperfection, inadequacy
- It is the deficiency, and not the excess of this quality, that is to be feared.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Wherever her heart was interested, there never seemed a deficiency of mind.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- "We must do our best to supply the deficiency," said Morton, as he entered.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Besides, it supplies a deficiency which would have occurred had it been left out.
- Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 » by Various
- The deficiency is something over two hundred million florins.
- Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr
- He has observed this deficiency in him when talking to Aristoteles on a previous occasion.
- Extract from : « Parmenides » by Plato
- Not so; the deficiency which led to my conviction was not of words—certainly not.
- Extract from : « Apology » by Plato
- The Atwoods, however, talked enough to make up the deficiency.
- Extract from : « The Rise of Roscoe Paine » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Constance did not hear her, but Patricia readily supplied the deficiency.
- Extract from : « Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge » by Pemberton Ginther
- The want of this is the cause of more waste than any other deficiency.
- Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 » by Various
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