{
  "type": "oxford",
  "pronunc": {
    "phonetic": "skɛrs",
    "listenurl": "/var/www/html/blab/mp3/dic/scarce.mp3",
    "transkor": "부족한"
  },
  "meansorg": [
    {
      "type": "Adjective",
      "etymologies": "Middle English (in the sense ‘restricted in quantity or size’, also ‘parsimonious’): from a shortening of Anglo-Norman escars, from a Romance word meaning ‘plucked out, selected’",
      "definitions": "(especially of food, money, or some other resource) insufficient for the demand",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "in short supply"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "short"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "scant"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "scanty"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "meagre"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "sparse"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "hard to find"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "hard to come by"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "not enough"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "too little"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "insufficient"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "deficient"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "inadequate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lacking"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "wanting"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "as raw materials became scarce, synthetics were developed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "Adverb",
      "etymologies": "",
      "definitions": "scarcely",
      "synonyms": [],
      "examples": [
        "a babe scarce two years old"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "meanskor": [
    {
      "type": "형용사",
      "etymologies": "중세 영어('수량이나 크기가 제한되어 있다', '약식적이다'라는 의미에서): 앵글로-노르만 에스커의 줄임말에서, '빠져나왔다, 선택되었다'라는 의미의 로맨스 단어에서.",
      "definitions": "(특히 식량, 돈 또는 기타 자원에 대하여) 수요에 불충분한",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "in short supply"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "short"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "scant"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "scanty"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "meagre"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "sparse"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "hard to find"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "hard to come by"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "not enough"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "too little"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "insufficient"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "deficient"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "inadequate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lacking"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "wanting"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "원료가 부족해지면서 합성물이 개발되었다."
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "부사",
      "etymologies": "",
      "definitions": "거의",
      "synonyms": [],
      "examples": [
        "두 살밖에 안 된 아기"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "phrasesorg": [
    "make oneself scarce"
  ],
  "phraseskor": [
    "궁핍해지다"
  ]
}