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Plural of deficiency

regular plural

The plural of deficiency is deficiencies.

Forms of deficiency

Singulardeficiency /dɪˈfɪʃənsi/
Pluraldeficiencies
Countablecountable and uncountable

Deficiencies in a sentence

  • One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not.2013 August 31, “Promotion and self-promotion”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8851
  • His bodily deficiencies were a heavy burden to him.From the entry bodily
  • Herbs that tonify deficiencies strengthen or supplement the body's resistance against disease.2014, Stevenson Xutian, Shusheng Tai, Chun-Su Yuan, Handbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine, →ISBN, page 676. From the entry tonify
  • They were found to have vitamin C, calcium and iron deficiencies.2011 April 1, Annie Wei, “Microbloggers bring rural students a free lunch”, in Beijing Today, →OCLC, page 3, column 2. From the entry Xiji
  • Guess what the top two deficiencies were: lack of market orientation; poor quality of execution.2007, David Richmond, The Software Entrepreneur’s Template, page 15. From the entry guess what

Meaning of deficiency

  1. noun Inadequacy or incompleteness.
  2. noun An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
  3. noun The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.

Full definition of deficiency

Questions about the plural of deficiency

What is the plural of deficiency?
The plural of deficiency is deficiencies.
Is deficiency countable?
Deficiency is a countable and uncountable noun.

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