Scarcity

  • 21scarcity — noun (plural ties) Date: 14th century the quality or state of being scarce; especially want of provisions for the support of life …

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  • 22scarcity — /skair si tee/, n., pl. scarcities. 1. insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth. 2. rarity; infrequency. [1300 50; ME scarsete(e) < ONF escarsete. See SCARCE, ITY] Syn. 1. shortage, want, lack, paucity. * * * …

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  • 23scarcity — noun a) the condition of something being scarce or deficient b) an inadequate amount of something; a shortage Ant: abundance, copiousness …

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  • 24scarcity — Synonyms and related words: absence, chinchiness, chintziness, dearth, deficiency, exiguity, fewness, inadequacy, inadequateness, infrequence, infrequency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, miserliness, need, niggardliness, occasionalness, paucity …

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  • 25scarcity — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. deficiency, inadequacy, rarity, insufficiency; see lack 2 , poverty 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition or fact of being deficient: defect, deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, paucity, poverty …

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  • 26scarcity — sb. Alys. 5495 …

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  • 27scarcity — n. rareness, scarceness, state of being in short supply …

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  • 28scarcity — n. 1. Deficiency, dearth, want, insufficiency, lack. 2. Rareness, rarity, uncommonness, infrequency …

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  • 29scarcity — n 1. lack, dearth, want, need, crying need; insufficiency, inadequacy, deprivation, deficiency; paucity, sparseness, sparsity, scantiness; exiguity, ex iguousness, slenderness, thinness, leanness, meagerness, shortage, small number, paltriness;&#8230; …

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  • 30scarcity — scar·ci·ty …

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