Drouth (Noun)
Meaning 1
A prolonged shortage; "when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought".
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Examples
- The football team had a winning season, finally ending their four-year drouth.
- Years of low profits left the small business on the verge of collapse due to the ongoing financial drouth.
- Despite some improvement, many economists fear that a new global economic drouth may soon arise.
- Experts blame decades of agricultural drouth on destructive farming methods in many areas of Africa.
- Many months without work have pushed many employees to a mental and financial drouth during this slow hiring period.