shortfalling
n.— «While Democrats in Congress have vowed to investigate the findings, Bush said “the IG report, which justly made issue of FBI shortfallings, also made it clear that these letters were important to the security of the United States.”» —“Bush vows swift action in FBI records scandal” by Steve Holland in Anchorena Park, Uruguay ABC News Mar. 10, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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