Crossword clues for scarcity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scarceness \Scarce"ness\, Scarcity \Scar"ci*ty\, n.
The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of
quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency;
lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of
grain; a great scarcity of beauties.
--Chaucer.
A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples.
--Addison.
Praise . . . owes its value to its scarcity.
--Rambler.
The value of an advantage is enhanced by its
scarceness.
--Collier.
Syn: Deficiency; lack; want; penury; dearth; rareness; rarity; infrequency.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Old North French escarcete (Old French escharsete), from eschars (see scarce).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) the condition of something being scarce or deficient 2 (context countable English) an inadequate amount of something; a shortage
WordNet
n. a small and inadequate amount [syn: scarceness] [ant: abundance]
Wikipedia
Scarcity (also called paucity) is the fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human wants in a world of limited resources. It states that society has insufficient productive resources to fulfill all human wants and needs. The item needed could be a basic human need, and not just one based upon an economic want. Such as the NEED for clean drinking water and even healthcare as seen in third world countries. These such things are a scarcity in many parts of our world. Therefore, needs, not just wants or desires.
Scarcity, in the area of social psychology, works much like scarcity in the area of economics. Simply put, humans place a higher value on an object that is scarce, and a lower value on those that are abundant. The thought that we, as humans, want something we cannot have drives us to desire the object even more. This idea is deeply embedded in the intensely popular, “ Black Friday” shopping extravaganza that U.S. consumers participate in every year on the day after Thanksgiving. More than getting a bargain on a hot gift idea, shoppers thrive on the competition itself, in obtaining the scarce product.
Usage examples of "scarcity".
Zephaniah, was accomplished, in the scarcity of the beasts, the birds, and even of the fish.
The economists of the eighteenth century - whether Physiocrats or not - thought that land, or labour applied to the land, made it possible to overcome this scarcity, at least in part: this was because the land had the marvellous property of being able to account for far more needs than those of the men cultivating it.
It will put an end to the need for methane and oil mining on Earth, and completely realign political maps drawn by the scarcity of hydrocarbons.
No doubt these causes would tend greatly to the former scarcity of the finer kinds, but all the difficulties, if they can be called such, may be overcome by the very simple process of either putting in cuttings like wallflower slips during summer, or, as soon as the old plants are past their best bloom, dividing and replanting the various parts deeper, whereby all of them, however small, will make good plants the following season.
In the early twenty-first century, scandium had almost no commercial uses, and yet because of its extreme scarcity, cost several thousand dollars a pound.
Great Britain suffered no interruption, except from some transient tumults among the tinners of Cornwall, who, being provoked by a scarcity of corn, rose in arms and plundered the granaries of that county.
The scarcity of living creatures of the wild grew to be an absolute barrenness, as far as the trekkers knew.
The scarcity of mechanics of all kinds in the Confederacy, and the urgent needs of the people for many things which the war and the blockade prevented their obtaining, led to continual inducements being offered to the artizans among us to go outside and work at their trade.
Paradise Oasis the trek came out of a brushland into more open plains where rocks and trees and washes were remarkable for their scarcity.
They also appeased the general apprehension of a scarcity of bread, by orders to prevent the exportation of corn, and by enforcing the old laws against monopoly, forestalling, and regrating.
Profit margins, credibility at the cutting edge, scarcity value, and oversubscription in the market place.
And the scarcity of money prevents us from doing much business, but we are obliged to pay our workmen all the same.
This was an anxious day, as the 53rd seemed to be quite held up at Kuweilfeh and not too well provided with supplies, and there was considerable doubt, in view of the general scarcity of water, whether it would be possible to carry on the campaign, which involved rolling up the Sheria and Kuwauka defences from the east.
The same good will still remained, but there was lacking the like ability, owing partly to former charges by sea and land, but more especially to the great scarcity of victual which had continued in the city for the past three years, and had compelled many who had formerly been well off to reduce their expenditure, whilst others had been obliged to relinquish their trades and break up their households.
His army was in fact reduced to such a deplorable condition, from the scarcity of provisions and the predatory incursions of the Turcomans, that all hopes of undertaking a winter campaign against Herat were given up, and, despite the remonstrances of the Russian plenipotentiary, the shah led back his forces into Persia.