今日の単語 Crunch

Crunch

今日の単語は crunch です。カリっと美味しそうな感じがしてしまいますが、ほかの意味は？

a situation in which there is not enough of something:

A situation in which a business or economy has very little money can be referred to as a crunch.

〔深刻な〕不足

危機（的状態）、ピンチ

例文をみておきましょう

Humanity is heading for an energy crunch within a very few years.

数年以内に深刻なエネルギー不足に陥るでしょう

The U.N. is facing a cash crunch.

国連は資金不足に直面している

The solution to Australia’s jobs crunch could be already here – Australian businesses starved of skilled workers could recruit from a pool of more than half a million job-ready women, but only if the next government invests in better childcare, improves access to paid parental leave and drives higher wages in critical industries. As Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese clash over how to drive up pay packets in the face of sharply rising inflation, new research shows a solution to the nation’s skilled worker crisis could already be here. (from the Sydney Morning Herald)

人手不足解消は仕事をしたいと思っている多くの女性を採用すればできる。でもそのカギは政府の方針といかに働きやすい環境を提供できるかにある。

Food expert urges action on global fertilizer crunch – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is wreaking havoc on the global fertilizer industry. Farmers are being squeezed and one expert says governments must step in to prevent what could become the worst food crisis since World War Two. Russia and close ally Belarus are major exporters of fertilizer, but sanctions on both nations have choked global supply chains and doubled prices. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the problem – coupled with skyrocketing fuel and grain costs – could expose many people across the world to the risk of serious food shortages. (from NHK Global)

世界的な肥料不足。ロシアとベラルーシが世界的な肥料輸出国だったとは。食糧不足につながりかねないもよう。

今日の単語は

crunch 不足

でした

1年前の単語は fraught はらんで、伴って　https://himekurieitango.fraught