adam yokluğunda

== Turkish == === Etymology === From Ottoman Turkish آدم یوقلغی (adam yoḳluġu, “the lack of able men”), from آدم (adam) and یوقلق (yoḳluḳ), equivalent to adam (“man; human being, person”) +‎ yok (“absent, not present, non-existent”) +‎ -luk +‎ -u (possessive suffix) +‎ -(n)da (locative suffix with "n" as buffer consonant), literally “in the abscence of (proper) man”. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /aˈdam.jok.luːun.da/ Hyphenation: a‧dam‧yok‧lu‧ğun‧da === Adverb === adam yokluğunda (figuratively) Used to indicate the manner a person comes by a position purely due to a lack of better options, that the person in question is most likely unqualified or undesired for the position otherwise; vaguely similar to "lesser of two evils". Synonym: adam kıtlığında ==== Related terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “adam yokluğunda”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu