- insufficiency: lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
- insufficiency: a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents"
- unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate
- (inadequate) lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was unequal to the task"
- (inadequate) not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"
- the state of being inadequate; a shortage of required material; a lack of competence or ability
- (inadequate) Unequal to what is required, unable to meet a need.
- The loss or expense that is incurred by virtue of lost or reduced capacity, technological obsolescence, and/or abnormal wear and tear and that requires premature replacement or abandonment.
- A condition in which the capacity of the company's capital assets is too small to meet the company's productive demands.