Usually means: Limited availability of resources, goods.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word scarcity:

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

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Scarcity: Inflation Glossary
  4. Scarcity: Investopedia
  5. scarcity: Legal dictionary
  6. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. scarcity: Idioms

(Note: See scarcities as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) The condition of something being scarce or deficient.
noun:  (countable) An inadequate amount of something; a shortage.

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