The phrase "plug the shortfall" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to fill or cover a gap or deficiency. Example: The government needs to find a way to plug the shortfall in funding for education in order to improve the quality of schools.
Last week the government announced that old vaccines left over from the 2009 swine flu pandemic would be used to plug the shortfall in this winter's supplies.
Households are left either falling into debt and at risk of legal action, or taking money for food and essentials to plug the shortfall, in what is a government-created personal debt crisis".
A predicted £7m overspend across key departments in Somerset County Council has forced councillors to take £2m from reserves to help plug the shortfall.
G4S chief executive Nick Buckles told MPs that police and the military would be reimbursed for providing personnel to plug the shortfall.
Chief executive Nick Buckles told MPs that the military and the police would be reimbursed for providing personnel to plug the shortfall.
And the trustee who has submitted the proposal, James W. Giddens, has quietly identified a way that, if sent to the judge and approved, could plug the remaining shortfall for customers in the United States, according to people involved in the case.
In addition to the upcoming payouts, Mr. Giddens has identified a way that, if sent to the judge and approved, could plug the remaining shortfall for customers in the United States, according to people involved in the case.
He is known to all Pakistan as "Raja Rental", for presiding over deals which involved the government paying cronies to set up temporary or "rental" power plants, to plug the crippling shortfall in electricity supply, while he was energy minister.
The scale of the problems in the bank forced the wider group to cut its ownership of the once-prized asset to just 20% and rely on hedge funds to plug the capital shortfall.
It is the first concrete alternative to the proposal set out by the Co-op, which owns grocers, funeral homes and pharmacies, to plug the capital shortfall and stave off nationalisation.
We were also told that free schools would be set up to plug the national shortfall in school places, particularly those in the primary sector where the need is greatest.
