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[ UK /skˈe‍əsɪti/ ]
[ US /ˈskɛɹsɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. a small and inadequate amount

How To Use scarcity In A Sentence

  • In a market economy it is as easy to fall as to rise, but in periods of scarcity and famine, easier to survive within such a system than outside it.
  • Having experienced spells of acute water scarcity at periodic intervals, people do lament over the waste of the precious resource in such times.
  • He believed that the apparent scarcity of land was the result of land speculation and maldistribution that would be remedied by the single tax.
  • A celebrity, the Zu-Zu, the last coryphee whom Bertie had translated from a sphere of garret bread-and-cheese to a sphere of villa champagne and chicken (and who, of course, in proportion to the previous scarcity of her bread-and-cheese, grew immediately intolerant of any wine less than 90s the dozen), said the Cecil cared for nothing longer than a fortnight, unless it was his horse, Forest King. Under Two Flags
  • First, the influence of producer cartels on prices of primary products can be great, and yet not reflect scarcity changes.
  • This scarcity is inevitable in less developed countries.
  • The scarcity of modern director's negligence cases suggests that the likelihood of liability actually being imposed is currently minimal.
  • Any improvement is liable to be limited by a basic scarcity of players consistently capable of exerting exceptional influence on matches. Times, Sunday Times
  • May I respond by pointing out that in the population/resources crisis we are not ultimately concerned with scarcity but with exhaustion or nonavailability. An Exchange on Man as Pest
  • The consequences are that a lot of hoggs which would have otherwise gone into the food chain have been disposed of at public expense and there is now a scarcity of sheep meat.
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