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noun
A commodity which was chronically difficult for citizens of the Soviet Union to obtain; particularly one which was considered a necessity or only a very basic luxury in the West, such as toilet paper or a car.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, in-plural
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Calque of Russian дефици́тный това́р (deficítnyj továr, “scarce commodity”, literally “deficit good”).
