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uk / skeəs / us / skers / Add to word list. C1. not easy to find or get: Food and clean water were becoming scarce. scarce resources. Opposites. abundant formal. copious. plentiful. Fewer examples. With jobs so scarce, many young people have nothing to do. In wartime, food is often scarce. Research evidence in this area is scarce.
The meaning of SCARCE is deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand : not plentiful or abundant. How to use scarce in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Scarce.
4 meanings: 1. rarely encountered 2. insufficient to meet the demand 3. → See make oneself scarce 4. archaic or literary.... Click for more definitions.
adjective. us / skers / uk / skeəs / Add to word list. C1. not easy to find or get: Food and clean water were becoming scarce. scarce resources. Opposites. abundant formal. copious. plentiful. Fewer examples. With jobs so scarce, many young people have nothing to do. In wartime, food is often scarce. Research evidence in this area is scarce.
Scarce, meaning “restricted in quantity,” can oddly be traced back to the same Latin word that spawned the word "excerpt." Use the word scarce when you want to say that something is hard to find or practically missing.
Scarce definition: Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; short in supply.
Definition of scarce adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Define scarce. scarce synonyms, scarce pronunciation, scarce translation, English dictionary definition of scarce. adj. scarc·er , scarc·est 1. Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; short in supply: Fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought.
Meaning of scarce in Essential English Dictionary. scarce. adjective. uk / skeəs/ Add to word list Add to word list. rare, existing only in small amounts: scarce resources. (Definition of scarce from the Cambridge Essential Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of scarce. in Chinese (Traditional) 難得的，稀有的，罕見的, 幾乎沒有… See more.
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