shortage

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Scarce, inadequate and not enough
be at a premiumidiom
be thin on the groundidiom
chronic shortage
dearth
dearth of something
gold dust
insufficiently
lack
lacking
like gold dustidiom
long on something and short on somethingidiom
lousy
scarcity
scrubby
shortage
shortfall
shortness
shy
skinny
thin

paucity | American Dictionary

paucity
noun[ U ]
 fmlus/ˈpɔ·sɪ·t̬i/
the condition of having very little or not enough of something:
The authorities had to cope with the paucity of information about the effects of the storm.

Examples of paucity

paucity
For simplicity and given the paucity of evidence, the model assumes that the transition probabilities remain constant over the 10 years.
The extremities, however, must be treated with caution due to paucity of data.
The preference for stripped forms is evident from the paucity of overt inflectional affixes occurring in these early forms.
Similar explanations might account for the paucity of gender differences here among addicts' offspring.
This may be a contributory cause in the relative paucity of this species during the rains.
None the less, their success, and the relative paucity of performances that follow, raise a number of very interesting questions about contemporary musical life.
The explanation may lie in the paucity of private collections or in their loss during the upheavals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
These people are every year compelled by paucity of food to resort in great numbers to the plains.
American planners were hindered by the paucity of up-to-date information and even the bare facts of the geography of the islands.
However, there is as yet a relative paucity of research into effective treatments for delirium, or interventions for delirium prevention.
Readers from a musicological background may feel frustrated with the discursive focus of the text and the relative paucity of musical examples.
There is a paucity of case study material which examines older people working for a particular employer over a decade or more.
Recent textile research has shown, however, that a paucity of preserved whorls cannot be taken to indicate a corresponding lack of woven cloth.
Even for deliveries in primary health centres, there is often a paucity of suitable weighing scales.
Note also the paucity of sites where precipitation and soils are more propitious.
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