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.
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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151. It may also constitute the most effective way of utilizing scarce resources for many such libraries.
152. It is a process whereby scarce resources are allocated among competing powers and claimants.
153. Water was so scarce that lawn-sprinkling in the suburbs became a criminal offence.
154. But Aristotle knew just enough about economies to know that time was a scarce resource.
155. If it were to expropriate their property it would have to compensate them with scarce foreign exchange.
156. He has refused to speak to Hundley and is making himself scarce at the Delta Center to local reporters.
157. Controls over foreign exchange, credits and scarce materials could hardly force anybody to expand.
158. To be treated like a human is a luxury, perhaps, in this age where jobs are scarce.
159. Capital availability is scarce and may give rise Co greater pressures to demonstrate results from investments in ReD.
160. Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? Ralph Waldo Emerson 
161. But what about other planets, where water may be a scarce commodity?
162. Both countries rely on the river for scarce water resources.
163. Section 2 will consider the methods that have been used to allocate scarce foreign exchange and their effects on export performance.
164. In organizations with scarce resources political activity is inevitable and only the naive decry it.
165. There is the dual danger that scarce financial resources will be displaced and that people will choose analysis over action.
166. Densely populated Atlantic coast, inland areas are more scarce.
167. Traditional economics is concerned primarily with the efficient, least - cost allocation of scarce productive resources.
168. In time of war, the supply of consumer goods is scarce.
169. In some places maps are scarce, and are often crudely produced.
170. Quantitative information on these aspects of protein metabolism is scarce.Sentencedict.com
171. Chimps are too scarce, and too nearly human, to be routinely slaughtered for spare parts.
172. Physical capital is a scarce resource in rich and poor countries alike.
173. The ocean itself -- that serene and tideless sea - lay scarce less hushed.
174. Shoes and clothing for the army were scarce, ordnance supplies and drugs were scarcer.