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Another word for scarcity

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scarcity

n.

deficiency, inadequacy, rarity, insufficiency; see lack 2, poverty 2.

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Another word for scarcity

noun

The condition or fact of being deficient:

defect, deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, underage¹. See excess

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Through the resultant scarcity of labor, much land fell out of cultivation.
True scarcity is uncommon.
Emigration has, however, recently assumed such proportions as to lead to scarcity of labor and rise of wages in Italy itself.
The first noticeable effect of the crisis was a great scarcity of employment.
But in a world without scarcity, socialism can't even exist.

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