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"shortage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

shortage sustantivo

sustantivo + shortage
Kolokacji: 49
food shortage • labor shortage • water shortage • housing shortage • fuel shortage • power shortage • manpower shortage • ...
shortage + verbo
Kolokacji: 24
shortage causes • shortage leads • shortage means • shortage forces • shortage makes • ...
verbo + shortage
Kolokacji: 11
face a shortage • cause a shortage • suffer shortages • create a shortage • report shortages • ...
adjetivo + shortage
Kolokacji: 45
severe shortage • acute shortage • chronic shortage • serious shortage • critical shortage • ...
frequent collocations
Kolokacji: 5
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 9
(1) severe, acute, serious, critical, desperate, ...
Kolokacji: 11
(2) chronic, perennial
Kolokacji: 2
(3) current, real, potential, artificial, drastic, ...
Kolokacji: 9
(4) widespread, nationwide, worldwide, general
Kolokacji: 4
(5) temporary, persistent, constant, perpetual
Kolokacji: 4
(6) national, global, local
Kolokacji: 3
(7) great, massive, major, significant, tremendous
Kolokacji: 5
1. great shortage = znaczny niedobór great shortage
  • The situation was of great shortage and would remain so for some decades yet.
  • "It would appear that there was great shortage of detectives at station house tonight," he said.
  • So for a year or two there will be a great shortage of the true purple colour.
  • Now there had been a great shortage of messages from heaven for a very long time.
  • This attitude concealed a great shortage of funds on the royal side.
  • There is no great shortage of jobs in this country anyway.
  • In warm months, there is a great shortage of water.
  • The years following the Second World War were a time of great shortages.
  • The one driving force behind the quest to transplant animal organs is the great shortage of human ones.
  • As war approached in 1940, there was a great shortage of engineers and scientists needed for the defense industries.
2. major shortage = główny niedobór major shortage
3. massive shortage = rozległy niedobór massive shortage
4. significant shortage = znaczny niedobór significant shortage
5. tremendous shortage = wspaniały niedobór tremendous shortage
(8) sudden, impending, future, immediate, imminent
Kolokacji: 5
(9) frequent, periodic
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + shortage
Kolokacji: 11
of shortages • from a shortage • with a shortage • to a shortage • for the shortage • ...

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