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deficiency / lack / scarce / vacant post / to run short of
HSK 3
in short supply / scarce
HSK 7-9
badly damaged / shattered
HSK 7-9
to be deficient in / lapse / deficiency
HSK 7-9
shortage
HSK 7-9
in perfect condition / without any defect
currently in short supply / in deficit (of commodity) / currently vacant (position)
vacancy
necessary / must have
scarce / scarcity
whole
to fall vacant / a job opening at a high level
perfect and without blemish / flawless / to leave nothing to be desired
to fill a vacancy / to make up for a shortage / to supply a deficiency
to cherish the outmoded and preserve the outworn (idiom); conservative / stickler for tradition
waiting for a vacancy
vacancy
conservative / to preserve the outmoded
lucrative post
very short of (food, clean water etc) / extreme shortage / deficit
(job) opening
to be lacking / to fall short of / to wane / deficit / deficient
energy shortage
breaking
lightning (archaic word)
to be deficient in sth / to be short of sth (supplies, money etc)
waxing and waning (of the moon)
symmetry breaking (physics)
to lack / to do without
to remedy omissions and correct errors (idiom)
new moon
spontaneous symmetry breaking (physics)
surplus and shortfall


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