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short supply

collocation in English

meanings of shortand supply


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short
adjective
uk /ʃɔːt/ us /ʃɔːrt/
small in length, distance, ...
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supply
noun
uk /səˈplaɪ/ us /səˈplaɪ/
an amount of something that is available ...
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Examples of short supply


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Organs for transplantation are in desperately shortsupply.
Yet medicine for virtually everyone was in shortsupply.
Money, experienced administrators, and technicians came into increasingly shortsupply.
Manure is usually in shortsupply, bulky and heavy, and it can introduce weeds and pests.
With housing in shortsupply generally, the danger of property speculation loomed large.
The weavers remained out of work owing to the shortsupply of yarn.
At first, economic development and its attendant white-collar majorities were themselves in shortsupply.
Nevertheless, this information is important because seed is precious and may be in shortsupply.
Incisive policy formation, foresight and courage appear to have been in shortsupply.
As mentioned earlier, nomination research has been in shortsupply for these newer democracies.
Sometimes it is simply employing inexperienced or inept workers when skilled labour is in shortsupply.
Geo-coded datasets are in shortsupply, though becoming much more prevalent.
It may be in shortsupply and priming might increase risk under such circumstances.
Indicators are also in rather shortsupply when it comes to support for political actors.
Even before the destruction and upheaval of partition, housing had been in shortsupply.
However, empirical tests of their relative explanatory power using quantitative evidence have been in shortsupply.
One can imagine that tree branches were soon in shortsupply near waterholes.
Train drivers are in shortsupply because the companies caused them to be in shortsupply.
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The elites have benefited more than the masses, and realistic programmes for wider benefit have been in shortsupply.
This he demonstrates with a string of delightful anecdotes - never in shortsupply for so charismatic a figure.
The government was particularly keen to court physicians, who were in alarmingly shortsupply since the 1940s.
There was a further problem in the sense that cattle were in extremely shortsupply in 1803.
That said, and recent upsurge in critical interest notwithstanding, books about 1930s left writers remain in relatively shortsupply.
If a good or currency was in shortsupply, hundi/hawala interest rates were likely to have been correspondingly higher.
Their art could not be divided into rudimentary tasks, and they labored tirelessly to keep their mastery in shortsupply.
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