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scarce::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | scarceness, scarcity |
fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought.
Examples of scarce
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Retail in New Orleans East is scarce, and there is no hospital serving the area.
From the cnn.com
In India, he alleges, Coca-Cola's bottlers have sucked up scarce water supplies.
From the businessweek.com
Management talent, as opposed to technical and manufacturing knowhow, is scarce.
From the businessweek.com
At a time of belt-tightening, money for grants will be scarce for years to come.
From the forbes.com
I just feel like with money so scarce, couldn't we focus on the cases here, now?
From the ocregister.com
Do we invest scarce dollars in Pennsylvania students or in Pennsylvania schools?
From the post-gazette.com
This is also what rats do when resources are scarce and there is overpopulation.
From the independent.co.uk
Conditions are poor, with summer floods, habitat and food is scarce in wetlands.
From the kansas.com
Shouldn't scarce taxpayer money be spent only on those who are not very wealthy?
From the nzherald.co.nz
- Barely: only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
- Deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
- (scarcely) hardly: almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"
- (scarcity) a small and inadequate amount
- Scarce are an Alternative rock band formed in Rhode Island, New York, USA. They were active from 1993 to 1997, and reformed in 2008.
- Scarce is a surname, and may refer to: * Kevin Scarce (born 1952), Royal Australian Navy admiral * Mac Scarce (born 1949), American baseball player * Michael Scarce (21st century), American writer * scarce shika (since preconcieved)
- Scarcity is the fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants, in a world of limited resources. It states that society has insufficient productive resources to fulfill all human wants and needs. ...
- Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; Difficult to find, due to scarcity; Scarcely, only just
- (scarcely) Probably not; Certainly not; Almost not at all; by a small margin
