Synonym: rare, scanty, sparse. Antonym: plentiful. Similar words: scarcely, incarcerate, scare, parcel, scared, scary, discard, scarred. Meaning: [skers /skeəs] adj. 1. not enough; hard to find 2. deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand. adv. by a small margin.
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61. They may have the ability to decide how to allocate scarce resources, whether they are finances, promotions or new equipment.
62. Mayors have to juggle scarce resources to keep their cities working.
63. At least three distinct groups want a share of the scarce resource.
64. Aye, but you must remember that money was so scarce in the thirties that you couldn't miss anything.
65. Entirely reliable facts, other than those here mentioned, are scarce.
66. State politics ends up as a perennial battle between squabbling regions for scarce resources.
67. The use of linear programming as an aid to decision making when allocating scarce investment funds has been widely advocated.
68. In the face of competing claims on scarce resources, the allocation process can also become highly political.
69. This might be high if workers were scarce or highly productive and low if they were redundant or incompetent.
70. They also use more fuel, therefore contributing more pollution, and use more of an increasingly scarce resource than diesels.
71. We had allowed six days to explore the island: it was scarce enough.
72. The first concerns the best method of allocating the scarce foreign exchange currently available.
73. The picture forming in his mind was clearer, more distinct, though he could scarce believe it.
74. Their works tended to be small-scale, mostly because they worked in cramped living spaces with scarce materials.
75. Audit of general practitioner services is generally regarded as desirable, but funding is scarce.
76. The problem of the prophecies was solved albeit in a way he had scarce expected.
77. When the industry is expanding and labour is scarce, management will obviously have less control over productivity.
78. This resulted in downward pressure on wages as many workers competed for scarce jobs.
79. As resources become increasingly scarce, choices have to be made and priorities set.
80. Such decisions may have substantial implications for individual and social welfare and the allocation of scarce resources.
81. Jobs and relief agencies were scarce in northern cities, where anti-Negro sentiment kept growing.
82. Relatively few have survived from antiquity, since silver became scarce and a much sought after commodity in the late Empire.Sentencedict
83. Gaining approval, competing for scarce resources, and obtaining cooperation require managers to develop bases of power beyond positional authority.
84. The executives' gargantuan incomes derive from their power over what has become an increasingly scarce factor of production, capital.
85. Professional opportunities were scarce for young men, even those with impressive academic credentials.
86. Getting beyond descriptions also pertains to the second scarce resource of change: meaningful language.
87. The Green Party has little financial backing and is using its scarce resources to mount ballot-petition drives in selected states.
88. Now that agave is scarce, it is the tequila distilleries that are hurting.
89. They stated that basic equipment and medicines were in short supply and that antibiotics and analgesics were particularly scarce.
90. Rapid population growth can have other important, if less direct, consequences when it is linked to competition for scarce resources.