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scant
scant [ skant ]


adjective 
Definition:
 
1. inadequate: not sufficient
2. only or not quite: just about or just below a particular amount
a scant twenty votes
[14th century. < Old Norse skamt, form of skammr "short"]

scant·ly adverb
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