The phrase "avoid a shortage" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing strategies or actions taken to prevent a lack of supply or resources.
Example: "To ensure we meet customer demand, we need to implement measures to avoid a shortage of inventory."
Alternatives: "prevent a deficit" or "eliminate a shortfall.".
To avoid a shortage, the government will have to tender for new power plants this year.
To avoid a shortage of generating capacity in coming decades, the industry is looking at options like advanced reactors and licensing extensions.
For more than 50 years after Congress created the Highway Trust Fund in 1956 it was able to avoid a shortage of funds by a simple measure: it didn't spend more than was collected in gas taxes.
So many Virginia Tech fans traveled to the game that the Montgomery County school district extended its winter break one day to avoid a shortage of teachers and students.
It said that developed countries can avoid a shortage of high-skill workers by more than doubling those obtaining college and postgraduate education, allowing more high-skill workers to immigrate to the countries where they are needed, retraining more mid-career workers, and guiding more college students to job-relevant training.
Noda supports the phase-out, but wants existing reactors to be checked quickly and restarted to avoid a power shortage.
Exports were banned for the first four months of 1998 to avoid a domestic shortage after drought and fires had reduced output, but the weak rupiah encouraged illegal shipments.
To avoid a labor shortage, they should consider a multi-pronged approach, including employing automated tools and pre-trained models, empowering nontechnical users with no-code tools and self-service analytics, and investing in training their own staff in data science by selecting a high-quality, accelerated training option from among the many currently available.
The 140-mile-long Lake Powell pipeline is what state planners see as the best way to avoid a water shortage calamity.
Ohi's No. 4 unit will come on line later this month after the government approved the restarts to avoid a power shortage.
For example, the government's energy office has been raising regulated electricity prices, to stimulate new investment and avoid a potential power shortage next year.
