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the moment scarcity goes from problem to plot, and panic starts buying toilet paper.
means A situation where the supply of something falls below what's needed or wanted.
from From "short" plus the noun-forming suffix "-age" (the same ending that turns words into states or quantities, as in "breakage" or "leakage"). "Short" itself is old Germanic stock, related to words meaning "cut" — so a shortage is, quite literally, the state of being cut off before you have enough. The word "shortage" emerged as a 19th-century English formation, naming the gap between what is and what's required.
- hoarding loop
- Fear of shortage creates the shortage feared.
- word origin
- From 'short,' meaning cut off or lacking.
- phantom kind
- Many shortages are distribution failures, not actual lack.
- chip crisis
- 2021 semiconductor shortage idled global auto factories.
- engineered
- Some shortages are manufactured to spike prices.
venezuela fuel crisis — gasoline shortages across the country since 2016, causing rationing and long queues at pumps
sri lanka 2022 crisis — severe shortages of fuel, food, and medicines leading to protests and political turmoil in july 2022
uk lorry driver shortage — approximately 100,000 missing hgv drivers post-brexit in 2021-2022, causing supply chain disruptions