Definitions
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- noun A
falling short ; failure to meet an expectation or standard.
Etymologies
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short + falling
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Examples
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I wish to hell, that Apple would notice the shortfalling in their operating system for power users and start realising that in this area Windows machines are slicker.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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30, HR 1559, Roll Call 104 on sustaining the rule of the chair to strike the Amendment, 4/3/03 4. Also in April 2004, while Kirk voted to shower $62.5 Billion for war in Iraq War and shortfalling homeland security funding for first responders, including local police, firefighters and emergency crews.
Facts are stubborn things: First Responders Edition Ellen Beth Gill 2008
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