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scarcity

/ˈskɛɹsɪti/ nom C1

En français : manque, rareté, pénurie

  1. The condition of something being scarce or deficient. (uncountable)
  2. An inadequate amount of something; a shortage. (countable) · a scarcity of grain

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There is one other yet to pass through the shed, who has as it were a hundred eyes, and until he has come and gone, your life is still in peril.” At that moment the master himself entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly fed, he went up to their racks and cried out: “Why is there such a scarcity of fodder?
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 34 · B2
“No, sire, for that would only betoken for us seven years of plenty and seven years of scarcity; and with a king as full of foresight as your majesty, scarcity is not a thing to be feared.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 88 · C1
Elizabeth Bennet had been obliged, by the scarcity of gentlemen, to sit down for two dances; and during part of that time, Mr.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 10 · B2
It may, therefore, be easily imagined there is no scarcity of guides at the Colosseum, that wonder of all ages, which Martial thus eulogizes:
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 351 · C1

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