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oversupply
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oversupply
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But that could cause another problem: If enough farmers pile into grain, it might cause an oversupply and depress prices.
▪ It has since fallen to about 16 amid a concern about an oversupply of chips.
▪ That kind of oversupply, he figures, could push prices back down to $ 18 a barrel or so.
▪ Thus the plan typically results in substantial oversupply of some goods and severe shortages of others.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oversupply

Oversupply \O`ver*sup*ply"\, v. t. To supply in excess.

Oversupply

Oversupply \O"ver*sup*ply`\, n. An excessive supply; a supply in excess of demand.

A general oversupply or excess of all commodities.
--J. S. Mill.

Wiktionary
oversupply

n. An excessive supply. (from 19th c.) vb. To supply more than is needed

WordNet
oversupply

  1. n. the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn: glut, surfeit]

  2. v. supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" [syn: flood, glut]

Usage examples of "oversupply".

The oversupply of wood I had petulantly rammed in had burned off and the oven innards did not seem overhot on my skin.

His chair, also oversupplied by the Core, skittered away on the air as if it were on ice.

It sometimes happens that the pituitary of an adult, who has achieved his full measurements and has ceased growing long since, begins to produce an oversupply of growth hormone.

To keep it from filling above a certain level we have four great pumping stations that force the oversupply back into the reservoirs far north from which the red men draw the water which irrigates their farm lands.