lack of supply
collocation in Englishmeaningsofandsupply
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supply
noun
uk/səˈplaɪ/us/səˈplaɪ/
an amount of something that is available ...
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(Definition oflack-ofandsupplyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is the point of thelackofsupplyof steel, and so on.
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Lackofsupplyis one of the contributory factors.
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Perhaps it is because of alackofsupplyside zeal.
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It addresses the lack of housing demand in parts of the north and thelackofsupplyin parts of the south.
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The second problem is that money is relatively cheap to borrow and that cheap money is chasing thatlackofsupply.
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It would create a short-term major difficulty, but power cuts happen at the moment and there is alackofsupply.
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There has been nolackofsupplyof funds, whether equity or venture capital or bank lending, for any viable industrial proposal.
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It is not a question of alackofsupply.
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The question is one of supply and thelackofsupplyof affordable housing.
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We might have alackofsupplyin one place and a surplus in another.
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The planning system has been a contributory factor in thelackofsupplyboth of adequate private housing and of affordable social housing.
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Thelackofsupplyis causing immense difficulties for many families.
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The difficulty may belackofsupply, high interest rates or an unwillingness to undertake the expense.
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In their panic to do something about thelackofsupplyof good, low-cost housing for rent or sale, they have decided to expand the housing associations.
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The locations of the empty homes do not necessarily square with the demand or thelackofsupply, but the priority should still be to bring them back into use.
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My object is that these 8,750 new cottages should be built where at present there is a totallackofsupplyof this very necessary article.
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Lackofsupplyhas led some people who would never have touched black fish because they did not approve of dealing in them to consider doing so.
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After the announcement of the device, alackofsupplywas evident.
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Due tolackofsupply, rice and corn grits are sometimes brought in from the mainland.
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Again, these were easily lost, destroyed or captured, and thelackofsupplymade it impossible to replace them.
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