Usually means: Limited availability; not readily abundant.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word scarce:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. scarce: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scarce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scarce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scarce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scarce: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scarce, scarce: Wordnik
  7. scarce: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scarce: Wiktionary
  9. scarce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scarce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scarce: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scarce: Dictionary.com
  13. scarce: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scarce: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scarce (band), Scarce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scarce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scarce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scarce: Rhymezone
  19. scarce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scarce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. scarce: Free Dictionary
  22. scarce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. scarce: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scarce: Numismatic Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scarce: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. scarce: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCARCE: Acronym Finder
  2. scarce: Idioms

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Collectors' Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See scarceness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (chiefly of resources, such as food) Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
adjective:  Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.
adverb:  (archaic, literary) Scarcely, only just.
noun:  A surname.

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