Expensive and Scarce

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Expensive adjective - Commanding a large price.

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Scarce and expensive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scarce" instead an adjective "Expensive".

Nearby Words: expend, expense, expensively, expensed, expensing

Scarce adjective - Less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable.

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Expensive and scarce are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Expensive" instead an adjective "Scarce".

Nearby Words: scarcity, scarcely, scarceness

Some incidents damaged her reputation, including her supposed invocation of "let them eat cake" in a time when bread was scarce and expensive.

Source: Useful Notes / Marie Antoinette
Streicher exploited fully the fact that porn was not legal at the time and therefore scarce and expensive as any smuggled commodity.

Source: Characters / Nazi Germany
Ammo is very scarce and expensive, guns deteriorate and break very quickly, so most of the times you will whack stuff with your trusty little wrench just to save that precious ammo for when you really, really need it.

Source: Video Game / System Shock

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