Scarcity

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Two or more factors may explain the relative scarcity of HPS cases among children. (references)
		However, in the United States, the scarcity of donor hearts limits the number of transplantations to about 2,000 persons a year. Those who qualify for heart transplantation often have to wait months, or even years, for a suitable donor heart. (references)
Business		The increasing scarcity of water resources in China has become a serious threat to the country's future development. (references)
		Companies in this sector are facing problems competing with imports, due to credit scarcity and lack of incentives to increase production. (references)
		Demand for these products has been limited due to the scarcity of financing at reasonable interest rates and to the poor productivity and revenues of the agricultural sectors. (references)
Children	Zambia	A lack of adequate educational facilities and a scarcity of educational materials are problems. (references)
Civil Liberties	Haiti	With a low rate of literacy (approximately 52 percent) and the relative scarcity of televisions, the most important medium is radio, especially those stations broadcasting in Creole. (references)
Economic History	Chad	In practice, this law has not been applied due to the scarcity of skilled labor. (references)
Human Rights	Congo	Prison conditions remained poor due to overcrowded facilities and scarcity of resources to provide food or health care to the inmates. (references)
	Vietnam	Although the Constitution provides for legal counsel for persons accused of criminal offenses, the scarcity of lawyers makes this provision impossible to enforce. (references)
	Angola	The Government continued to pay increased attention to the rights of prisoners during the year; however, there was no substantial change in practice by year's end because of a scarcity of personnel and resources and a lack of official determination to ensure these rights. (references)
Political Economy	PANAMA	Extraordinary quotas have been authorized for rice and pork products when stocks have gone down in order to prevent scarcity of food products. (references)
	JAPAN	While U.S. carriers have been generally happy with the results of the 1998 agreement, scarcity of slots at Narita airport, along with expensive and inadequate facilities, have limited carriers' ability to use new traffic rights. (references)
Trade	Nigeria	This facility is made available in local currency and enables manufacturers of exportable goods to procure adequate local materials (which may be seasonal) needed to keep their production at optimal levels particularly during the periods of scarcity. (references)
Travel	Chad	This scarcity is due in part in the lack of construction materials and the high cost of energy. (references)
Worker Rights	Namibia	However, the scarcity of judges and lack of expertise in labor law causes lengthy and unnecessary delays. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H
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Speeches: Scarcity

Usage Frequency: Scarcity

Expressions: Scarcity

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scarcity

Modern Translation: Scarcity

Language		Translations for "scarcity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rrallësi (rareness, rarity), pamjaftueshmëri (deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, scantiness), mungesë (absence, absentness, dearth, deficiency, deficit, destitution, lack, Miss, non-attendance, poverty, shortcoming, short-fall, want, Wantage). (various references)

Arabic		‏نقص في المؤن, ‏نقص (allow, cut, cut down, decrease, deficiency, depress, deprivation, detract, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, famish, flaw, gap, imperfection, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, lessen, limit, lower, paucity, rareness, reduce, reduction, retrench, revocation, scantiness, shortage, shortcoming, thin), ‏إحتياج (lack). (various references)

Bulgarian		рядкост (curiosity, freak, rareness, rarity, sparsity, virtu), глад (famine, hunger, starvation), оскъдица (dearth, sparsity), недостатъчност (inadequacy, sparsity), недостиг (deficit, famine, insufficiency, lack, privation, scarceness, shortage, stringency, ullage, want), липса (absence, default, defect, deficiency, failure, lack, penury, poverty, privation, shortage, shortcoming, stringency, ullage, want). (various references)

Chinese		缺乏 (Dearth, Deficiencies, Deficiency, lack, Lacked, lacking, scant, scarce). (various references)

Czech		nouze (deprivation, destitution, distress, indigence, necessities, need, needs, pinch, poverty, privation, want), nedostatek (absence, defect, deficiency, deficit, demerit, drawback, failing, failure, fault, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, non-availability, penury, poverty, privation, shortage, shortcoming, want). (various references)

Farsi		کمیابی (Infrequency, Paucity, Poverty, Rarity). (various references)

Finnish		vähyys (fewness, shortage, smallness), niukkuus (scantiness), harvuus (thinness). (various references)

French		rareté (scarceness), raréfaction des ressources en eau, pénurie, manque, disette (scarceness). (various references)

German		Knappheit (brevity, conciseness, concision, crispness, famine, insufficiency, lowness, paucity, penury, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, shortage, shortness, skimpiness, succinctness, tautness, terseness, tightness), Mangel (absence, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, drought, fault, flaw, imperfection, lack, mangle, need, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, privations, rotary iron, scarcities, shortage, shortcoming, vise, want). (various references)

Greek		έλλειψη (absence, dearth, default of, defect, deficiency, ellipse, failing, lack, shortage, shortage of, shortcoming, want). (various references)

Hebrew		מחסור (deficiency, deprivation, insufficiency, lack, misery, need, paucity, scarceness, shortage, want), בצורת (dearth, drought), רעב (famine, famished, gluttonous, greedy, hunger, hungry, ravenous, starvation, yearning), � �"ירות (dearth, infrequency, rareness, rarity, scarceness). (various references)

Hungarian		hiány (absence, blank, dearth, defect, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, failure, hiatus, lack, missing, missing link, poverty, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, upchuck, want, wastage), vminek a szűke, szűke vminek. (various references)

Indonesian		kelangkaan (rarity). (various references)

Italian		strettezza (lack, narrowness, scantness, shortage, skimpiness, tightness), scarsit� (dearth, lack, poorness, scarceness, shortage, slenderness), scarsezza (jejuneness, paucity, scantiness, scarceness), rarit� (curio, exceptional, infrequence, rareness, rarity). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		払底 (dearth, famine, shortage). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すくな�', ふってい (dearth, famine, shortage). (various references)

Korean		부족 (Deficiencies, Deficiency, lack, shortage, tribal, tribe). (various references)

Pig Latin		arcityscay.(various references)

Portuguese		penúria (destitution, famine, paucity, penurity, penury, shortage), insuficiência (defect, failure, insufficiency, paucity, shortcoming), falta (absence, default, deficiency, fail, failing, forfeit, foul, guilt, lack, lacuna, miss, mistake, need, non-attendance, omission, paucity, penurity, penury, privation, shortage, shortcoming, slip, want, wantage), escassez (dearth, famine, paucity, shortage, stringency, want), carência (absence, failure, famine, lack, miss, need, negation, penurity, penury, poorness, shortage, stringency, want). (various references)

Romanian		sãrãcie (baldness, barrenness, dearth, destitution, impecuniosity, indigence, meanness, misery, necessity, neediness, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, sterility, stringency, want), raritate (curio, dearth, rare, rarity, scantiness, scarceness, singularity), puţinãtate (fewness, paucity, smallness), neîndestulare (shortage, shortcoming). (various references)

Russian		скудость (barrenness, exiguity, scantiness), редкость (curio, curiosity, rara avis, rareness, rarity, sparseness, sparsity, sparsness, white crow), недостаток (blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, failure, fault, flaw, lack, letdown, minus, objection, penury, privation, shortage, shortcoming, vice, want), дефицит (deficit, scarcities, shortfall, shortfall on, shortfalls). (various references)

Scottish		gainne (a dart). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oskudica (dearth, destitution, lack, necessity, need, penury, privation, scarceness, want, wantage), nestašica (dearth, lack, paucity, scarceness, shortage, want). (various references)

Spanish		escasez (dearth, famine, lack, meanness, need, parsimony, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, sparseness, stinginess, tightness, want). (various references)

Swedish		knapphet (dearth, exiguity, paucity, shortage, stringency). (various references)

Turkish		nadirlik (infrequency, scarceness), kıtlık (dearth, drought, exiguity, failure, famine, paucity, penury, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, shortage, slimness, sparseness, sparsity), azlık (exiguity, fewness, littleness, minority, paucity, scantiness, scantness, slimness, spareness, tightness), az bulunurluk. (various references)

Turkmen		kцst (lack, shortage), kemlik (lack, shortage), kemзilik (shortage). (various references)

Ukrainian		рідкість (curio, rareness, rarity), недостача (absence, dearth, failure, lack, need, non-availability, penury, poverty, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness, want). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự thiếu thốn (meagreness, paucity, penuriousness, poverty), sự khan hiếm, sự khó tìm. (various references)

Welsh		prinder (scarceness), drudaniaeth (dearth, paucity). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: Scarcity

Misspellings: Scarcity

Rhyming with "Scarcity"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "scarcity" (pronounced ske"rsutē)
5	-r s u t ē	varsity.
4	-s u t ē	adversity, analyticity, animosity, atrocity, audacity, authenticity, biodiversity, capacity, complexity, complicity, curiosity, density, laxity, diversity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, ethnicity, falsity, Felicity, ferocity, generosity, incapacity, intensity, mendacity, monstrosity, multiplicity, necessity, obesity, opacity, overcapacity, paucity, perplexity, perversity, pomposity, propensity, publicity, reciprocity, religiosity, simplicity, specificity, tenacity, toxicity, university, velocity, veracity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity.
3	-u t ē	absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, ability, abnormality, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, austerity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, legality, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, divinity, docility, duality, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, femininity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opportunity, originality, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, personality, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, velvety, venality, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, visibility, vitality, volatility, vulgarity, vulnerability.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Anagrams: Scarcity

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-r-s-t-y"
	-1 letter: arctics, satyric.
	-2 letters: arctic, crista, cystic, racist, triacs.
	-3 letters: airts, artsy, astir, cacti, carts, circa, cycas, satyr, scart, scary, sitar, stair, stray, stria, tarsi, trays, triac.
	-4 letters: acts, airs, airt, airy, aits, arcs, arts, arty, asci, cars, cart, cast, cats, cays, cist, city, cris, cyst, racy, rats, rays, rias, ryas, sari, sati, scar, scat.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-r-s-t-y"
	+2 letters: astrocytic, cryostatic, scratchily.
	+3 letters: antisecrecy, aristocracy, psychiatric, pyroclastic.
	+4 letters: acrostically, confiscatory, intrapsychic, macrocytosis, microcrystal, pantisocracy, perspicacity, physiocratic, prostacyclin, saccharinity, tachycardias.
	+5 letters: chalcopyrites, idiosyncratic, microcrystals, prophylactics, prostacyclins, sacrosanctity, sarcastically, tetracyclines.
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Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To dream of scarcity, foretells sorrow in the household and failing affairs. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insufficiency	Scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition, starvation, famine, drought.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Economics: Dealing with Scarcity (reference) Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. (reference) From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineer (reference) Scarcity and evil (reference) Scarcity and Survival in Central America: Ecological Origins of the Soccer War (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Smoking a cigar, an angry President McKinley fights with Spain about the scarcity of Havana cigars due to the Spanish-American War. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Samuel Johnson	Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Thomas Love Peacock	The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	I will seek new ways to use our knowledge to help deal with the explosion in world population and the growing scarcity in world resources.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	208	21,075

Expression using "scarcity": scarcity value. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "scarcity": labour-scarcity, post-scarcity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day
scarcity	24
the scarcity of water	15
economic scarcity	5
economics scarcity	3
article scarcity	2
definition scarcity	2
care health in scarcity	2
oil scarcity	2
resource scarcity	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	inopia, inopiae, inopiam, paucitas, paucitate, paucitatem, paucorum, penuria, penuriam. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Scarcity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scacity, scaricty, scarity, Scarpitta, scarsity, starchily. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scarcity

Definition: Scarcity

Scarcity

Noun

Specialty Definition: Scarcity

Specialty Definition: Scarcity

Synonym: Scarcity

Synonyms within Context: Scarcity

Insufficiency

Crosswords: Scarcity

Commercial Usage: Scarcity

Books

Photo Album: Scarcity

Familiar Quotations: Scarcity

Samuel Johnson

Thomas Love Peacock

Non-Fiction Usage: Scarcity

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Scarcity

Lyndon B. Johnson

Usage Frequency: Scarcity

Expressions: Scarcity

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scarcity

Modern Translation: Scarcity

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Ancestral Language Translations: Scarcity

Misspellings: Scarcity

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Scarcity"

Anagrams: Scarcity

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