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单词 scarcity
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scarcity

Give him your scarcity and he will turn it into opportunity.The fashionable talk then was of limits to growth and resource scarcity. Resource scarcity is set to be an investment feature for decades.It holds that both are results of population pressure and the scarcity of resources that this produces.Will scarcity of supply keep pushing up prices?The result of this reluctance for upheaval is a scarcity of supply of homes for sale.As with any commodity, the relative scarcity of women has pushed up their value.Nobody should place the whole blame on scarcity of resources; that would be too complacent.A relative scarcity of firms producing the high-quality product is one of the predictions of this model.Hence, presumably, the relative scarcity of truly great ambient albums.This is a simple distinction, but it focuses attention on the fact that scarcity of resources limits our ability to satisfy all of our wants.This could have been a great sci-fi film about resource scarcity, immigration and integration.During the first half of the year prices surged, driven by a scarcity of supply, particularly of family houses.The unit value of a fishery resource is positively linked, like any other good, to its relative scarcity rather than to its abundance.

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scarcity

British English: scarcity NOUN
If there is a scarcity of something, there is not enough of it for the people who need it or want it.
...an ever-increasing scarcity of water.
  • American English: scarcity
  • Brazilian Portuguese: escassez
  • Chinese: 缺乏
  • European Spanish: escasez
  • French: pénurie
  • German: Knappheit
  • Italian: scarsità
  • Japanese: 不足
  • Korean: 부족
  • European Portuguese: escassez
  • Latin American Spanish: escasez

(noun) 
Definition
an inadequate supply
an ever-increasing scarcity of water
Synonyms
shortage
There's no shortage of ideas.
lack
Despite his lack of experience, he got the job.
deficiency
They did tests for signs of vitamin deficiency.
poverty
a poverty of ideas
want
The men were daily becoming weaker for want of rest.
dearth
a dearth of resources
paucity (formal)
the paucity of information
insufficiency
Anaemia is due to insufficiency of iron.
infrequency
undersupply
rareness
Opposites
excess,
surplus
,
abundance
,
glut
,
surfeit
,
superfluity
Seepaucity

Synonyms of 'scarcity'

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Additional synonyms

in the sense of lack
Definition
shortage or absence of something required or desired
Despite his lack of experience, he got the job.
Synonyms
shortage,
want,
absence,
deficiency,
need,
shortcoming,
deprivation,
inadequacy,
scarcity,
dearth,
privation (formal),
shortness,
destitution,
insufficiency,
scantiness,
debt
in the sense of paucity
Definition
scarcity
the paucity of information
Synonyms
scarcity,
lack,
poverty,
shortage,
deficiency,
rarity,
dearth,
smallness,
insufficiency,
slenderness,
sparseness,
slightness,
sparsity,
meagreness,
paltriness,
scantiness
in the sense of poverty
Definition
lack or scarcity
a poverty of ideas
Synonyms
scarcity,
lack,
absence,
want,
deficit,
shortage,
deficiency,
inadequacy,
dearth,
paucity (formal),
insufficiency,
sparsity
in the sense of want
Definition
a lack, shortage, or absence
The men were daily becoming weaker for want of rest.
Synonyms
lack,
need,
absence,
shortage,
deficiency,
famine,
default,
shortfall,
inadequacy,
scarcity,
dearth,
paucity (formal),
shortness,
insufficiency,
non-existence,
scantiness
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