scarce

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Attention is scarce, information is not - do the math.

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Quick take

deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of scarce gathered in one view.

adjective

deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"

adverb

only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for scarce.

adjective

deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"

adverb

See also: barely, hardly, just, scarcely

Example sentences

Attention is scarce, information is not - do the math.

People without any physical needs still create and distribute things that are scarce.

Your time is scarce, and hence valuable, plus you've already demonstrated three things they'll get out of saying "Yes.

Many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year, without employment.

Many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year without employment.

Similarly, the content industry can focus on modes of distribution which add value to the content, which is not scarce.

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Emotional intelligence is currently a very scarce commodity.

If you look at the scale of the problems India has gotten herself into - population, scarce natural resources, education, corruption - generations have had nothing but apathy towards.

Faced with a failing business model, IP companies are investing their ever-scarce capital into political rent-seeking, the consequences of which would be the destruction of privacy and creative freedom.

So if technology makes a previously containable and scarce thing non-containable and non-scarce, then our ideas about what exactly can be property will change without having to believe that natural law itself had to change.