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A bread shortage is a scarcity of bread relative to demand, whether from crop failures, supply chain disruptions, or economic crisis.
Bread shortages have historically sparked unrest—the phrase evokes images of empty bakeries and long queues.
The drought caused a bread shortage across the region.
More broadly, any staple food shortage works similarly: rice shortage, flour shortage.
- famineSevere food shortage
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- food crisisSevere shortage of sustenance
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- French RevolutionBastille, guillotine, Robespierre, French Revolution, Marie Antoinette
- bread systemsbakeries, flour mills, grain supply
bread shortageabundance
Ample supply, overflowing
plenty · surplus · glut · overproduction · bumper crop
bread shortagefeast
Elaborate ceremonial meal
food security · plenty · prosperity · bounty · plenitude
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