Scarcity

Word SCARCITY
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Definitions and meanings of "Scarcity"

What do we mean by scarcity?

Insufficiency of amount or supply; shortage. noun

Rarity of appearance or occurrence. noun

Sparingness; parsimony; niggardliness; stinginess. noun

The state or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity or number, or smallness in proportion to the wants or demands; absolutely, deficiency of things necessary to the subsistence of man; dearth; want; famine. noun

Synonyms Scarcity, Dearth, Famine. Scarcity of the necessities of life is not so severe as dearth, nor dearth so severe as famine. Primarily, dearth is a scarcity that is felt in high prices, and famine such scarcity that people have to go hungry; but both are generally stronger than their derivation would suggest, famine often standing for extreme difficulty in getting anything whatever to support life. noun

The condition of something being scarce or deficient noun

An inadequate amount of something; a shortage noun

A small and inadequate amount noun

The condition of something being scarce or deficient

An inadequate amount of something; a shortage

Synonyms and Antonyms for Scarcity

The word "scarcity" in example sentences

The types of anxiety that I associate with this level are what I refer to as scarcity and avoidance. ❋ M.D. Henry Emmons (2010)

The American scholar, Regina Schwartz, in a provocative book on the dangers of monotheism as reflected in the Jewish and Christian Bible (The Curse of Cain, Chicago 1997), has argued that underlying this question in Scripture is a tension between what she calls scarcity and plenitude. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This excitement and mania put what I call a "scarcity premium" on shares - sending Cisco shares to sell for more than 188 times earnings at the height of the dot-com bubble.

Yes, scarcity is a major part of this trade, largely due to the unlimited wants us as a nation and world posses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The international average, indicating water scarcity, is a thousand cubic meters per capita. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Those markets, the bank says, are "already driven by longer-term scarcity issues" and are less likely to suffer declines due to debt worries in the U.S. and Europe because demand is "relatively robust and supply risks abound." ❋ Jerry A. DiColo (2011)

This removes the notion of scarcity from a definition - not that scarcity isn't important, but it always helped my students think about problems like relative abundance more easily. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Since scarcity is produced by desire, there is no technoloical threat on the horizon.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since scarcity is produced by desire, there is no technoloical threat on the horizon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's easy to believe that scarcity is not important, when you have fallen victim to the illusion of abundance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I don't understand how you can say scarcity is not important in some parts of economics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Given the rather low operating cost of nuclear power and the abundance of uranium and thorium nuclear fuels (several hundred million years worth at todays electric prices) energy scarcity is not a gating factor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While the problem of land scarcity is an issue, this recalls Le Corbusier at his absolute worst, and is a pretty ironic design for a French city. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have become a glass-half-full person where I used to live in scarcity and fear all the time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or as Michael Mandel might put it, that's one of the "big chunks of the economy where scarcity is not important, in any but a formal sense." ❋ Unknown (2009)

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