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skills shortages

skills shortages is the plural of skills shortage.

Meaning of skills shortage

Noun

skills shortage (plural skills shortages)

  1. A lack of specialized workforce.
    • Her decision reflects what seems to be an accelerating trend here. Professionals, often young and in middle management but increasingly also senior executives, are leaving, adding to a skills shortage that is already acute.2008 November 1, “South African emigration leads to skills shortage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about skills shortages

What is skills shortages the plural of?
Skills shortages is the plural of skills shortage.

Words near skills shortages in the dictionary

  1. Skillmans
  2. skillmen
  3. skillo
  4. skills
  5. skills shortage
  6. skills shortages
  7. skills up
  8. skillset
  9. skillsets
  10. skillshare
  11. skillshares

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