plenty

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
scarce
scrubby
shortage
shortfall
shortness
shy
skinny
thin

scarcity | American Dictionary

scarcity
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈskeər·sɪ·t̬i/
a lack of something:
[ C ]A scarcity of flour makes bread, cake, and other baked goods more expensive.

scarcity | Business English

scarcity
noun[ S or U ]
uk /ˈskeəsəti/us
a situation in which something is not easy to find or get:
a scarcity of sthThere is a scarcity of skilled workers in the building sector.

Examples of scarcity

scarcity
If households will plant, at what level of fuelwood scarcity will they decide that planting trees for fuel is a worthwhile investment?
This is probably an artefact caused by the relative scarcity of saplings and a few larger saplings found close to adult trees.
This is because prices or preferences expressed in money terms do not reflect relative scarcities and social priorities and preferences in these areas.
The problems of scarcity, in terms of urban space and resource, were not resolved even after economic reform.
Meaningful analysis of female occupation and illiteracy is thus non-viable because of the scarcity of data.
This finding sheds a critical light on the use of "organ scarcity" as a moral knock-out phrase.
This is unlike agriculture where there are physical limits to increased productivity due to the scarcity of land.
This implies that concerted evolution is not acting, which is corroborated by the scarcity of signatures of gene conversion and recombination.
Perhaps most noteworthy was the scarcity of farm labourers among the lieutenants, captains, and commandants who ran the movement in the parishes.
We leave it to future research to more fully investigate the link between resource scarcity/relative distribution, conflicts, and herd mobility.
As might have been expected, there is a rather close connection between the avoidance of fill-in and the maintenance of scarcity.
The scarcity of materials on women living in frontier regions makes it harder to retrieve either personal or communal memories.
Clearly, resource prices must eventually reflect an increase in the absolute scarcity of low entropy.
This implies that relationships among relevant participants will reflect information scarcity.
Under conditions of severe scarcity, or when the relative viability of different infants varies significantly, the costs of getting the trade-off wrong could be high.
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Collocations withscarcity

scarcity

These are words often used in combination with scarcity.

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artificial scarcity
His principal purpose is to bring about an artificial scarcity ill order to raise prices.
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