空额vacancy

• 补缺

  fill a vacancy

参见：缺乏[quēfá]

• 缺人手

  be short-handed

• 缺钱

  be short of money

• 不缺钱

  be not short of money

• 缺雨

  have a lack of rainfall

• 缺铁状况

  iron deficiency

• 改变农村中缺医少药的状况

  alleviate the shortage of medical supplies and services in villages

• 你们还缺什么？

  What else are you lacking?

• 缺啥补啥

  make up for what is lacking

• 工人已经有了，所缺的只是材料。

  We aren't short of workers, only materials.

残缺to be incomplete

• 月缺

  the moon wanes

• 墙缺了一块

  a piece is missing from the wall

• 椅子缺了一条腿。

  The chair is missing a leg.

• 一套餐具已残缺不全。

  This set of cutlery is incomplete.

该到而未到to be absent