乏 - destitution, scarce, limited

deficiency; insufficiency; shortage; lack; want; dearth; scarcity

meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up; lacking; scanty; poor

poverty; destitution; privation; indigence; penury

poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious

poor person; the poor

god of poverty

shaking one's legs (usu. unconsciously); tapping one's foot; fidgeting (of the legs)

short end of the stick; short straw; unlucky number; blank; bad bargain

needy circumstances; living in poverty

to get scarce; to run short

hardships and privations

impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests