undersupply
Not enough available
Undersupply is an insufficient quantity of something needed or demanded.
Markets experience undersupply when production falls short of demand, typically driving prices up.
As a verb, to undersupply is to provide less than required: The factory undersupplied its distributors throughout the shortage.
Deficient supply of necessities
- shortfallFailure to reach quota
- deficitAmount still owed
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
paucity · lack · deficiency · gap · underproduction · unavailability · rationing · depletion
shortage
Deficient supply of necessities
insufficiency · paucity · lack · deficiency · gap · underproduction · unavailability · rationing · depletion · exhaustion
insufficient
Below required quantity
scanty · skimpy · bare · minimal · lean · thin · poor · paltry · deficient · wanting
want
To desire something
poverty · penury · hardship · scarcity · starvation · famine · drought · hunger · necessity · destitution
- availabilityavailable, unavailable, sold out, in stock, out of stock
- scarcityscarcity, scarce, shortage, scant, scanty
- infant feedingbaby bottle, baby formula, bottle feeding, formula feeding, infant formula
- market imbalancesshortage, surplus, glut, scarcity, deficit
- shortfallsdeficit, shortfall, budget shortfall, shortage, gap
- supplysupplies, stock, provisions, stockpile, reserve
undersupplyoversupply
Excess beyond demand
surplus · excess · overabundance · glut · surfeit