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- deficiency :the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
- there is a serious lack of insight into the problem|water is the critical deficiency in desert regions|for want of a nail the shoe was lost
- deficiency :lack of an adequate quantity or number
- the inadequacy of unemployment benefits
- deficiency :the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable