por: deficiência

Information
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Meaning
means	(noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; "reading disability"; "hearing impairment" handicap, impairment, disablement, disability
means	(noun) 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" want, deficiency, lack
means	(noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
means	(noun) a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits" deficit
means	(noun) a failing or deficiency; "that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information" shortcoming, defect
means	(noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit" deficit, shortfall, shortage