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in short supply
Less than is needed, lacking. For example, Skilled operators were in short supply, or The hotels are all full, and beds are in short supply. [First half of 1900s]
Example Sentences
This indicates concern about shortages of a medicine and allows pharmacists to give patients an alternative - though they argue other drugs are also in short supply.
With potable water in short supply, neither the cafe nor the motel nor its six roadside cottages have been open since the 1980s.
What remains in short supply is the political will to ensure that these impacts are neither ignored nor repeated.
Good news, however, remains seemingly in short supply at many struggling American orchestras, just as it does in many uncertain aspects of American life.
Additionally, with only 4,400 clinical psychologists in the U.S., they are in short supply.
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