Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SCARCE
SCARCE
Definitions of SCARCE
- Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
- Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.
- (archaic, literary) Scarcely, only just.
- A surname.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using SCARCE in a Sentence
- For example, bioethics is concerned with identifying the best approach to moral issues in the life sciences, such as euthanasia, the allocation of scarce health resources, or the use of human embryos in research.
- Microeconomics is a branch of economics that studies the behavior of individuals and firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources and the interactions among these individuals and firms.
- Details about Rædwald's reign are scarce, primarily because the Viking invasions of the 9th century destroyed the monasteries in East Anglia where many documents would have been kept.
- For example, a shop might give away its stock in its promotion, but producing these goods would still have required the use of scarce resources.
- The OPA had the power to place ceilings on all prices except agricultural commodities, and to ration scarce supplies of other items, including tires, automobiles, shoes, nylon, sugar, gasoline, fuel oil, coffee, meats and processed foods.
- In practice, evidence is scarce for its early usage, but it was revived later as the ano teleia, the modern Greek semicolon.
- Most dismiss Harriman's plans as foolhardy: Nuclear rocket fuel is scarce as the space station that produces it blew up, also destroying the only existing spaceship.
- Most people were expected to have their own piece of land to farm, and due to the massive and nonstop population boom, land in New England became scarce as every son claimed his own farmstead.
- Most people were expected to have their own piece of land to farm, and due to the massive and nonstop population boom, land in New England became scarce as every son claimed his own farmstead.
- The town is now but a dent in the land; scarce of life with a scant 20–30 people and covered with kudzu.
- For example, Aspen trees are seen here and there on the mesa, as opposed to the lower Ridgway valley where they are scarce.
- There is absolutely no waste of land, and scarce a quarter of a section not affording an admirable building site.
- From that precondition arises the need for principles to resolve competing interest and claims concerning a just or at least morally preferable distribution of scarce resources.
- The term 'rare-earth' is a misnomer because they are not actually scarce, although historically it took a long time to isolate these elements.
- Since historical records by the Ebionites are scarce, fragmentary and disputed, much of what is known or conjectured about them derives from the polemics of their Gentile Christian opponents, specifically the Church Fathers — Irenaeus, Origen, Eusebius, and Epiphanius of Salamis — who saw the Ebionites as distinct from other Jewish Christian sects, such as the Nazarenes.
- The reserve is important for some scarce breeding birds, such as pied avocets on the islands, and western marsh harriers, Eurasian bitterns and bearded reedlings in the reeds.
- With reading material scarce in his new home, Morris mailed comic-strip clippings from the United States.
- When Robert arrived in Apulia, lands were scarce, and thus he couldn't expect any land grant from his brother Drogo, then count (especially since Drogo had already given Humphrey the county of Lavello).
- Geothermal desalination plants have already been successful in various regions, and there is potential for further development to allow the process to be used in an increased number of water scarce regions.
- The company has been associated with various controversies, facing criticism and boycotts over its marketing of baby formula as an alternative to breastfeeding in developing countries (where clean water may be scarce), its reliance on child labour in cocoa production, and its production and promotion of bottled water.
- Apart from hunter-gatherers, most pre-modern peoples' time was limited by the need to meet necessities such as food and shelter through subsistence farming; leisure time was scarce.
- While not a noncommissioned officer (NCO) the PFC was an experienced soldier, as prior to WWII the majority of enlisted men remained privates for the entire term of their enlistment since promotion opportunity was scarce.
- Thus using scarce computing and network resources for "frivolous" purposes, such as chat, was often discouraged.
- Jonathan Swift said that "with a singularity scarce to be justified he carried away more Greek, Latin and philosophy than properly became a person of his rank".
- Bosch was also responsible for finding a more practical catalyst than the scarce osmium and expensive uranium being used by Haber.
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