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[ skair -si-tee ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈskɛər sɪ ti / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun, plural scar·ci·ties. insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
rarity; infrequency.
Origin of scarcity 1300–50; Middle English
scarsete (
e ) <Old North French
escarsete. See scarce, -ity
SYNONYMS FOR scarcity 1 shortage, want, lack, paucity.
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OTHER WORDS FROM scarcity non·scar·ci·ty, noun, plural non·scar·ci·ties. Words nearby scarcity scarce, scarce as hen's teeth, scarcely, scarcely ever, scarcement, scarcity , scare, scarecrow, scaredy-cat, scarehead, scaremonger
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Example sentences from the Web for scarcity Over the past decade, a scarcity of risk capital has meant that funding for new explorations has been low.
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However, the assumption that most pervades decision making in our era is scarcity .
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Understanding scarcity , urgency, and exclusivity can be one of the best ways to influence your potential customers to make a purchase.
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Perhaps, once in awhile, scarcity will breed rational thinking, too.
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One of the most painful and confusing paradoxes of life today concerns our sensation of scarcity amid plenty.
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Inside of prison, even our privileged American prison, scarcity is just as much of an issue as it was in the Gulag.
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One great bug bear of the prairies was formerly the scarcity of timber.
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No one in the country need suffer from the cold on account of scarcity of fuel.
There is so great a scarcity of wood in these parts, that the inhabitants use turf or peats for fuel, as is done in Flanders.
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The condition existing could be remedied now, if Messrs. Townlinson & Sheppard saw no obstacles other than scarcity of money.
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The scarcity of large towns in Russia is not less remarkable than their rustic appearance.
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British Dictionary definitions for scarcity noun plural -ties inadequate supply; dearth; paucity
rarity or infrequent occurrence
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to scarcity paucity, lack, inadequacy, dearth, famine, insufficiency, shortage, drought, stringency, infrequency, scantiness, rarity, want, rareness, sparsity, exiguity, uncommonness
Cultural definitions for scarcity The basic problem on which classical economic theory is built: simply, that human wants will always exceed the resources available to fulfill those wants. This tenet was challenged by the rise of what John Kenneth Galbraith described as the affluent society.
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