shortage
The number of heart transplants has remained so low because of a chronic shortage of donors.
A chronic shortage of armoured vehicles meant that the country was completely unprepared for the conflict.
The government is trying to address the chronic shortage of housing in rural areas.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Continuous & permanent
abiding
abidingly
ad infinitum
around-the-clock
be
immanence
immanent
immanently
imperishable
imperishably
on the spinidiom
on the trotidiom
perennial
permanence
permanency
unrelentingly
unrelieved
unrelievedly
unremitting
unremittingly
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Scarce, inadequate and not enough