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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

자원 고갈

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jawon gogal

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Resource-depletion/ˈriː.zɔːs dɪˈpliː.ʃən/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"기후 변화와 자원 고갈은 현대 사회의 주요 과제입니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The consumption of a natural resource at a rate faster than that of its renewal.

    "Rapid industrialization has accelerated the resource-depletion of fossil fuels and rare minerals."
  2. 2

    The reduction in the availability or quality of essential assets within an environment or system.

    "Forestry management aims to prevent severe resource-depletion in vulnerable woodland ecosystems."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'resource', originating from the Old French 'resourse' (from Latin 'resurgere', meaning to rise again), and 'depletion', derived from the Latin 'depletio', meaning to empty or exhaust. It emerged in modern ecological and economic discourse during the mid-20th century to describe the consumption of natural assets faster than they can be replenished.

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