artificial shortage

collocation in English

meaningsofartificialandshortage

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artificial
adjective
uk
/ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/
us
/ˌɑːr.t̬əˈfɪʃ.əl/
made by people, often as a copy of ...
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shortage
noun[C]
uk
/ˈʃɔː.tɪdʒ/
us
/ˈʃɔːr.t̬ɪdʒ/
a situation in which there is not enough ...
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(Definition ofartificialandshortagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We are in fact tending to create anartificialshortageand a virtual monopoly in office accommodation.
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However, it is not necessarily right that there should be anartificialshortage.
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It is apparently suggested that anartificialshortagewill be created with a view of putting up prices.
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There was a tendency to create such anartificialshortageearly this year.
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The first one was that it creates anartificialshortageby discouraging letting and encouraging under-occupation.
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It is stated that the board will underestimate the demand, so as to create anartificialshortage.
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I do not suppose there is anyone who will dare to propose to the masses of the people that anartificialshortageshould be created.
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But limits on production must not lead to anartificialshortage, so that market prices rise far above guaranteed prices.
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They can be in their monopoly position and increase prices through producing anartificialshortageof oil whenever they wish.
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The rise was due to natural not toartificialshortage.
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The result has been that anartificialshortagehas been created and prices have risen.
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Since 1965 we have had the office development permit system and in consequence there is anartificialshortage.
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By creating anartificialshortageof good bacon, you would be driven inevitably to adopt a system of rationing.
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We may find ourselves in a situation where there is anartificialshortageof mortgages created because the mortgage market is leaned upon.
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Then again where you create anartificialshortageof supplies on your market, you disturb the legitimate trade.
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If there is a shortage of locomotives and wagons, it is not so much a numerical shortage as anartificialshortagecreated by lower standards of traffic operations.
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Further, economic equilibrium can correspond with monopoly, where the monopolistic firm maintains anartificialshortageto prop up prices and to maximize profits.
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If, happily, peace comes to the world the artificial shortages which have been caused by war will cease.
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It began to create artificial shortages, inevitably, of its own accord.
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Through the operations of the first schemes we have found that there have been artificial shortages of some yarns.
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