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scarcedeficient in quantity or number compared with the demand Meanwhile, heating oil could grow more scarce in the Northeast this winter, the Energy Department warned last month. — New York Times (Jan 21, [..]
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scarceTraditionally, a "scarce" publication isn't as hard to find as a rare publication, but might take a few years to locate.
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scarcec. 1300, "restricted in quantity," from Old North French scars "scanty, scarce" (Old French eschars, Modern French échars) from Vulgar Latin *scarsus, from *escarpsus, from *excarp [..]
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scarcerare.
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scarceAvailable in small supply; opposite of abundant. Usually meaningful only in relative terms, compared to demand and/or to supply at another place or time. See factor abundance, factor scarcity.
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scarceThe general condition indicating that a good or resource is limited relative to the what people want. In terms of ALL resources and goods throughout society, the related term scarcity is used. Being s [..]
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scarcebarely: only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit&quot [..]
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scarcenot enough; difficult to find
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scarceTraditionally, a "scarce" publication isn't as hard to find as a rare publication, but might take a few years to locate.
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scarce(adj) deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand(adv) only a very short time before
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scarceThe general condition indicating that a good or resource is limited relative to the what people want. In terms of ALL resources and goods throughout society, the related term scarcity is used. Being s [..]
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scarcelang=en
1600s=1678
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* '''1678''' — . ''''.
*: He hath, since his going back, been had greatly in derision, and that among all sorts of people; some do mock and despise him; and scarce wi [..]
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