scarcer in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for scarcer in the English»French Dictionary

I.scarce [Brit skɛːs, Am skɛrs] ADJ

1. scarce (rare):

scarce animal, antique, food, plant, water

rare

2. scarce (insufficient):

scarce funds, information, resources

limité

to become scarce

se faire rare

II.scarce [Brit skɛːs, Am skɛrs] ADV archaic (hardly)

scarce

à peine

III.scarce [Brit skɛːs, Am skɛrs]

to make oneself scarce inf

s'éclipser inf

Translations for scarcer in the French»English Dictionary

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se débiner (pour se dérober à qc)

to make oneself scarce inf

se raréfier nourriture, denrée, argent:

to become scarce

prendre la tangente inf

to make oneself scarce inf

à la niche! fig, hum

make yourself scarce! inf

rare matière première, denrée, main-d'œuvre, produit

scarce

rare minerai

rare, scarce

devenir ou se faire rare argent, produit, denrée:

to be ou become scarce

les locations se font rares

rented accommodation is becoming scarce

prendre le large fig, inf

to make oneself scarce inf

scarcer in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for scarcer in the English»French Dictionary

scarce [skeəs, Am skers] ADJ

scarce

rare

to make oneself scarce

s'éclipser

Translations for scarcer in the French»English Dictionary

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se raréfier touristes, gibier, argent, marchandise

to get scarcer

prendre la tangente

to make oneself scarce

se faire la malle inf

to make oneself scarce

se faire rare

to become scarce

être d'une extrême rareté

to be extremely scarce

je te conseille de te faire oublier

I'd advise you to make yourself scarce

scarcer Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to make oneself scarce

s'éclipser

I'd advise you to make yourself scarce

je te conseille de te faire oublier

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Capital requirements should be temporarily loosened to reduce the reserves banks need to hold against new loans, the main reason for scarcer, costlier credit.

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In plantations there are not as many holes to nest in, so it is scarcer.

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But now that human capital is scarcer than machines, widespread education has become the secret to growth.

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However, due to both the aforementioned introduced mammals and human destruction of habitat, these parakeets have become much scarcer in the last handful of decades.

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Although lung cancer (slowly increasing among women) and breast cancer (decreasing rapidly) are scarcer, cancer of the cervix and the prostate are more frequent.

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The scarcer the money, they believed, the lower the cost of produce and the more distressed the people became, the better.

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The first issue in black is scarcer than the red stamp, but neither of them is particularly rare.

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