escasez

f.

1 shortage (insuficiencia).

escasez de mano de obra labor shortage

2 scarcity, meagerness, lack, shortage.

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escasez

► nombre femenino

1 (carencia) scarcity, lack, shortage

2 (mezquindad) meanness, stinginess

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noun f.

1) scarcity, lack, shortage

2) want

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SF

1) (=insuficiencia) shortage, scarcity más frm

escasez de agua — shortage o scarcity más frm of water

escasez de fondos — shortage of funds

hay escasez de medicamentos — there is a shortage of medicine, medicine is in short supply

escasez de mano de obra/viviendas — labour/housing shortage

2) (=pobreza) poverty

viven en la escasez — they live in poverty

3) pl escaseces (=apuros)

han pasado muchas escaseces — they suffered great hardships

4) †† (=tacañería) meanness, stinginess

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femenino shortage

una época de escasez — a time of shortages

por escasez de medios — owing to a lack of resources

hubo escasez de agua — there was a water shortage

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= poverty, scarcity, shortage, dearth, paucity, starvation, sparsity, sparseness.

Ex. The economically told chronicle of Slake's adventures is an eloquent study of poverty, of fear, and finally of hope as circumstances converge to force Slake from his temporary limbo.

Ex. The relative scarcity of music automated authority and bibliographic records likewise increases costs.

Ex. Universities currently facing a shortage of space for books should consider sending a proportion of lesser used journals to the British Library now.

Ex. One obvious implication of this situation for the humanities is the dearth of relevant databases.

Ex. So we see extraordinary hardships cheerfully borne (indeed, apparently enjoyed) by zealous mountaineers, earnest single-handed yachtsmen floating round the world, and all-weather fishing-hobbyists sit patiently at the side of, and sometimes in, rivers, undeterred by the paucity of their catches.

Ex. This approach let to the financial starvation of public libraries.

Ex. The new and rapidly developing information technology systems can be used to overcome distance and sparsity of population.

Ex. This problem is referred to as the data sparseness problem = A este problema se le conoce como el problema de la escasez de datos.

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* escasez de agua = water shortage.

* escasez de alimentos = food scarcity.

* escasez de crédito = credit crunch, credit squeeze.

* escasez de información = information scarcity, information underload.

* escasez de mano de obra = labour shortage.

* haber escasez de = be in short supply, be at a premium.

* una escasez de = a dearth of.

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femenino shortage

una época de escasez — a time of shortages

por escasez de medios — owing to a lack of resources

hubo escasez de agua — there was a water shortage

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= poverty, scarcity, shortage, dearth, paucity, starvation, sparsity, sparseness.

Ex: The economically told chronicle of Slake's adventures is an eloquent study of poverty, of fear, and finally of hope as circumstances converge to force Slake from his temporary limbo.

Ex: The relative scarcity of music automated authority and bibliographic records likewise increases costs.

Ex: Universities currently facing a shortage of space for books should consider sending a proportion of lesser used journals to the British Library now.

Ex: One obvious implication of this situation for the humanities is the dearth of relevant databases.

Ex: So we see extraordinary hardships cheerfully borne (indeed, apparently enjoyed) by zealous mountaineers, earnest single-handed yachtsmen floating round the world, and all-weather fishing-hobbyists sit patiently at the side of, and sometimes in, rivers, undeterred by the paucity of their catches.

Ex: This approach let to the financial starvation of public libraries.

Ex: The new and rapidly developing information technology systems can be used to overcome distance and sparsity of population.

Ex: This problem is referred to as the data sparseness problem = A este problema se le conoce como el problema de la escasez de datos.

* escasez de agua = water shortage.

* escasez de alimentos = food scarcity.

* escasez de crédito = credit crunch, credit squeeze.

* escasez de información = information scarcity, information underload.

* escasez de mano de obra = labour shortage.

* haber escasez de = be in short supply, be at a premium.

* una escasez de = a dearth of.

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escasez

feminine

shortage

la posguerra fue una época de escasez the postwar period was a time of shortages

escasez DE algo:

la escasez de medios hizo que fracasara el plan the lack of resources led to the failure of the plan

ese verano hubo escasez de agua there was a water shortage that summer

la escasez de recursos naturales es el problema principal del país the country's main problem is its lack o shortage of natural resources o is the scarcity of its natural resources

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escasez sustantivo femenino
shortage;

◊ hubo escasez de agua there was a water shortage;

por escasez de medios owing to a lack of resources
escasez sustantivo femenino shortage

'escasez' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
carencia
- concienciar
- déficit
- privación
- insuficiencia
- mal
- penuria
English:
absence
- basic
- chronic
- dearth
- hoard
- labour
- lack
- scarcity
- shortage
- undermanning

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escasez nf

1. [insuficiencia] shortage;

hay escasez de agua en esa región there a shortage of water in that region;

la escasez de población es un problema en la zona the dearth of population is a problem in the area;

montan espectáculos con gran escasez de medios they put on shows with very slender resources

2. [pobreza] poverty;

en tiempos de escasez in times of hardship

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escasez

f shortage, scarcity

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escasez nf, pl -seces : shortage, scarcity

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escasez n shortage