availability
One issue identified was the unavailability of time for training.
These problems contribute to the mother's emotional unavailability and lack of responsiveness to her infant.
Very few students choose to study the subject because of the unavailability of qualified teachers to teach it.
Research was hampered by the unavailability of reliable records.

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gone
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irrecoverably
lost
non-availability
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pocket
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tie
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unavailability | Business English

unavailability
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌʌnəveɪləˈbɪləti/us
the fact that something is not able to be bought, owned, etc.:
Local farmers were angered by the unavailability of cheap fertilizer.

Examples of unavailability

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But even this is inadequate, for what must be recognized as the point of identification for these two lyrics is their textually constructed unavailability.
The second was to ensure that other researchers did not have the excuse of unavailability-more controversial!
It is argued that the results are consistent with the unavailability of the uninterpretable feature.
This study was also limited by the unavailability of maternal ratings of competence and support and teacher ratings of support for the nonaggressive children.
As pointed out earlier, some commodities were excluded from our price indexes because of the unavailability or poor quality of data.
As long as son preference is assumed to have existed, the similarity of the intervals suggests the unavailability or ignorance of contraceptive techniques.
None of the farmers in the focus group discussions used pesticides due to high costs and unavailability.
All the surveys were faced with the unavailability of a precise sample frame.
Finally, the unavailability of wide scope over co-ordinated verbs is a distinctive property of affixal elements.
Due to unavailability of data, the current study did not assess possible associations with different filtration techniques.
Coupled with this problem of input degeneracy is the problem of unavailability of negative evidence.
They tend to react to separation from or unavailability of an attachment figure with anxious preoccupied clinging and pursuit.
Although insecticides are eective, their relative unavailability prevents them being a viable option for local farmers.
Equations (7) and (8) also represent the availability and unavailability of the robot, respectively.
This is not only causing land scarcity but also the unavailability of relatively fertile soils for cultivation.
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