lack of resources
Not enough supplies
A lack of resources is an insufficient supply of what's needed to accomplish something—money, materials, personnel, time, or equipment.
The phrase appears often in institutional contexts to explain why something can't be done: The project failed due to a lack of resources.
It can sound like a euphemism for underfunding or poor planning.
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- in short supplyInsufficiently available
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- povertySevere lack of resources
- hand to mouthBarely meeting basic needs
deprivation · deficit · want · need · famine · drought · empty · running on empty · bare · bare bones · hungry · struggling · stretched · stretched thin · thin · depleted · exhausted · rationing
- hazardsfire hazard, fire hazards, toxin, contamination, tripping hazard
- obstaclesbarriers, block, obstacles, barrier, blockers
- mismanagementmishandling, dysfunction, misuse, incompetence, inefficiency
- creative blockswriter's block, writers block, creative rut, blank mind, blank page
lack of resourcessurplus
Amount exceeding requirement
plenty · abundance · excess · sufficiency · profusion
lack of resourcesresource-rich
Having plentiful valuable materials
well-equipped · affluence · prosperity · resourcefulness · endowment
lack of resourcesempowerment
Gaining authority or confidence
resourcefulness · means · capability · capacity · well-equipped
lack, lacks, lacked, lacking, resource, resources, resourceful, resourcefully, resourcefulness