The phrase "a supply deficit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where the available supply of a product or resource is less than the demand for it.
Example: "The recent natural disaster has led to a supply deficit of essential goods in the affected areas."
Alternatives: "a shortage of supply" or "an insufficient supply".
Coffee prices have fallen in anticipation of a bumper Brazilian crop, but the prospect of a growing supply deficit is stirring cocoa prices.
Prices soared almost to ten-year highs last summer when analysts forecast a huge supply deficit this season because of El Niño damage.
Similarly, a macrophage supply deficit may also explain the susceptibility of severely monocytopenic GATA2-deficient individuals to Mycobacterium avium complex (Dickinson et al., 2014; Hsu et al., 2011; Vinh et al., 2010).
Attempts to cool the Chinese construction market will be the dominant theme.Gold's fear-fuelled rise in 2010 will be extended, with a near-doubling of the supply deficit supporting already lofty prices.
Ghana a sub-Saharan country has seen relative improvements in some aspects of the economy howbeit the energy supply deficit within the region is a burgeoning problem.
The difference values were aggregated and divided by 5 years to estimate the number of years the water supply deficit and landscape stress had accumulated as a result of the drought and how many years of average climatic conditions would be necessary for the system to recover to normal hydrologic conditions.
As of the end of WY2016, which was a relatively normal water year, water supply ranged from about a half a year deficit in the north coast to greater than 3 years of water supply deficit or "missing water" in the south coast (Fig. 3b).
So it's not like there was huge supply deficit in the global cannabis market as there was when mephedrone (a now illegal synthetic cathinone) arrived to fill the tanks of European and especially British clubbers fed up with poor quality MDMA and expensive even poorer quality cocaine.
Jay Hakes, who until recently was director of the Energy Information Administration in Washington, said that the recent surge in activity by energy companies shows that there is no chronic supply deficit.
As many as 30 new gas-fired power stations are likely to be needed to make up the supply deficit, according to the report, but these are not being built.
