Definition

1. Noun:

   • Revenue shortfall / deficit: A situation where actual income or revenue collected is less than the expected, estimated, or planned amount.
   • Poor harvest / crop failure: A situation where the agricultural yield from a harvest is significantly below the normal or average level.

2. Verb (to incur a shortfall):

   • To fall short of revenue targets: To experience a deficit in collected income or taxes.
   • To have a poor harvest: To gather a smaller than usual crop yield.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • Thành phố đối mặt với khoản thất thu thuế lớn. (The city is facing a large tax revenue shortfall.)
  • Năm nay, nông dân lo lắng vì thất thu. (This year, farmers are worried about a poor harvest.)

• Verb:

  • Ngân sách nhà nước có thể thất thu do suy thoái kinh tế. (The state budget may fall short of revenue targets due to the economic recession.)
  • Vùng này thất thu lúa vì hạn hán. (This region had a poor rice harvest due to drought.)

Advanced Usage

• Often used in formal, economic, and agricultural contexts. It implies a negative deviation from a planned or expected norm.
• "thất thu ngân sách": budget deficit; a shortfall in the state or organizational budget.
  • Thất thu ngân sách sẽ ảnh hưởng đến các dự án công. (A budget deficit will affect public projects.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bội thu (n/v): The opposite of thất thu; meaning a revenue surplus or a bumper harvest.

  • Mùa vụ năm nay bội thu. (This year's crop season yielded a surplus.)

• Thiếu hụt ngân sách (n): Budget deficit (a more general synonym for the financial sense).

Synonyms

• Revenue deficit / shortfall (for financial context).
• Poor harvest / crop failure (for agricultural context).
• Loss of income.

Related Idioms

• While itself is not typically part of idioms, it is commonly used in set phrases like (tax revenue shortfall) or (crop harvest failure).