supply crisis
Goods availability emergency
A supply crisis is a severe disruption in the availability of essential goods or resources—when demand far outstrips what's available.
The term appears during shortages of fuel, food, medical supplies, or other necessities: The war triggered a global supply crisis in wheat and cooking oil.
A supply crisis may result from natural disasters, conflicts, production failures, or distribution breakdowns.
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- panic buyingFear-driven mass stockpiling
hoarding · toilet paper · empty shelves · bottleneck · disruption · just in time · demand · fuel · pipeline · chip shortage · logistics · inflation · gas lines · blackout · rolling blackouts · famine · drought · warehouse
- crisesemergency, disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, calamity
- 2020sCOVID-19, pandemic, vaccine, lockdown, January 6th
- Crimean WarSevastopol, Crimean War, Balaclava, Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale
supply crisisabundance
Ample supply, overflowing
surplus · plenty · glut · oversupply · excess
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