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Definition of Crowd out
1. Verb. Press, force, or thrust out of a small space. "The weeds crowded out the flowers"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crowd Out
Literary usage of Crowd out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Living Without Health Insurance: Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, U edited by Charles E. Grassley (2001)
"While several approaches may offset the extent of crowd-out, some degree of
crowd-out may be an unavoidable cost of expanding private or public coverage to ..."
2. God, the Creator and Lord of All by Samuel Harris (1896)
"The law of the survival of the fittest, that is, that the strong will crowd out
the weak, may be a law of the physical system. The law of personal beings in ..."
3. The Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering by Jessup Whitehead (1903)
"They will crowd out the "assistant manager." There is no such a thing as an
assistant manager, the man so called is occupying the steward's place without ..."
4. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1863)
"... the weeds spring up between the rows, and thus crowd out the grain iu- ...
of having the grain crowd out the weeds. Until it will pay to hand- weed the ..."
5. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1884)
"Self will crowd out God, or God will crowd out self. Sin cannot remain stationary.
It hastens on to judgment. Before the sinner only two paths are ..."
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