OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 19902

deficiency

/dɪˈfɪʃənsi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
deficiencia • déficit
An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not. Often, this is seen as a phenomenon speci…
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