deficiência — meaning in English
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English meaning
- deficiency noun A lack or shortage of something necessary, especially for health.
- handicap noun A physical or mental condition that limits a person's abilities.
- lack noun The absence or shortage of something needed or wanted.
- shortcoming noun A fault or weakness in someone or something that stops them being as good as they should be.
Senses
deficiência is used for these senses in English:
- deficiency (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
- deficiency (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
- handicap (sports) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.
- handicap (sometimes considered offensive) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.
- lack A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth.
- shortcoming A deficiency or falling short; failure to attain a goal or ideal.
handicap — full definition
- noun A physical or mental condition that limits a person's abilities.
- noun Something that makes success harder; a disadvantage.
- noun In sport, an adjustment (extra weight, time, or strokes) given to weaker competitors to even out a contest.
- verb To put someone or something at a disadvantage.