Usually means: Less abundant or less frequent.
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  1. scanter: Merriam-Webster
  2. scanter: Vocabulary.com
  3. scanter: Wordnik
  4. scanter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. scanter: Wiktionary
  6. scanter: Dictionary.com
  7. scanter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. scanter: FreeDictionary.org
  9. scanter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scanter: Legal dictionary

(Note: See scant as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (scant)

adjective:  Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.
adjective:  Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
adjective:  (cooking, of a measurement) Slightly diminished; just short of the amount described.
verb:  (transitive) To limit in amount or share; to stint.
verb:  (intransitive) To fail, or become less; to scantle.
noun:  A small piece or quantity.
noun:  (uncommon) Scarcity; lack.
noun:  (masonry) A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
noun:  (masonry) A sheet of stone.
noun:  (wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.
adverb:  (uncommon or dated) With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
▸ Also see scant


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