conditions of scarcity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconditionandscarcity
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condition
noun
uk/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/us/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/
the particular state that something or someone ...
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scarcity
noun[U]
uk/ˈskeə.sə.ti/us/ˈsker.sə.t̬i/
a situation in which something is not easy to find ...
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(Definition ofconditionandscarcityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Furthermore, protecting the sources of that information, in conjunction with the overall conditions of scarcity, helped patrons to justify their personalised interventions into bureaucratic processes.
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The ability to moderate oil prices and competition during conditions of scarcity, real or fabricated, becomes easier when there are stockpiles.
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What has contributed to these increased expectations and conditions of scarcity?
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Even though principles of justice permit rationing under conditions of scarcity, they rule out allocation criteria that are based on morally irrelevant characteristics, such as race or gender.
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Such purchases create artificial conditions of scarcity and are undesirable.
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Speculators can flourish only in conditions of scarcity of a commodity—in this case land.
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In conditions of scarcity which have existed until recently, the case for the maintenance of export control over scrap is an overwhelming one.
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It would have been very much greater between the wars if today's conditions of scarcity and prices had existed.
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We must ask ourselves these questions in the present conditions of scarcity of capital.
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Indeed, so long as the conditions of scarcity exist, these schemes would appear assured of success.
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The really big difference between the years 1954–57 and 1945–51 is that the world has moved from conditions of scarcity and near-famine into abundance.
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There, unlike this country, the shops are empty, they have famine prices, and the farmers are enjoying all the conditions of scarcity and high prices for their commodities.
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That was all right in the post-war years when there were conditions of scarcity here in tie home market, and when there was little competition from overseas.
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Land if you were buying it to-day to plant anew in to-day's conditions of scarcity?
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Any ill-considered de-control of prices would be the surest road to inflation in the conditions of scarcity which cannot be wholly alleviated for some considerable time to come.
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The second, substantive meaning presupposes neither rational decision-making nor conditions of scarcity.
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When there are conditions of scarcity, like a water shortage, prosocials harvest less from a common resource.
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The second, substantive meaning, however, presupposes neither rational decision-making nor conditions of scarcity.
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