scarce: 意味と定義

Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; short in supply: Fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought.

Hard to find; absent or rare: Steel pennies are scarce now except in coin shops.

Barely or hardly; scarcely.

make (oneself) scarce Informal To stay away; be absent or elusive.

make (oneself) scarce Informal To depart, especially quickly or furtively; abscond.