Usually means: Lack of adequate supply; scarcity.
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  1. dearth: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dearth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dearth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dearth: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dearth: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dearth, dearth: Wordnik
  7. dearth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dearth: Wiktionary
  9. dearth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dearth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dearth: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dearth, dearth: Dictionary.com
  13. dearth: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dearth: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dearth (disambiguation), Dearth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dearth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dearth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dearth: Rhymezone
  19. dearth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dearth: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dearth: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. dearth: Free Dictionary
  23. dearth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. dearth: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. dearth: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dearth: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dearth: Encyclopedia

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dearth: Easton Bible
  2. Dearth: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dearth: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
noun:  (by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
noun:  (obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
verb:  (transitive, dated, obsolete) To cause or produce a scarcity in something.

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