Scarcity: alternatives and connections

Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

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The state of rarely occuring; uncommonness; rareness; as, the infrquence of his visits.

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Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity.

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The state or quality of being rare.

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The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.

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The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.

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The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness.

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The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc.

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Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.

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Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.

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Alt. of Scarcity

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An advantage based on giving up less of something else to produce a good.

Lower opportunity cost in production.

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

What consumers are willing and able to buy.

The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.

A sustained rise in the general price level.

The point where buyers want to purchase the same amount sellers want to provide.

The point where quantity supplied equals quantity demanded.

What you give up by choosing one option instead of the next best option.

The value of the best alternative forgone.

The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.

Output produced from a given amount of input.

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

What producers are willing and able to sell.