Definition of Over-crowding

1. Noun. Excessive crowding. "Traffic congestion"

Exact synonyms: Congestion
Generic synonyms: Crowding
Derivative terms: Congest, Overcrowd, Overcrowd

Lexicographical Neighbors of Over-crowding

ovenwares
ovenwood
ovenwoods
over
over(p)
over-
over-achiever
over-achievers
over-age
over-approximate
over-approximation
over-clock
over-consumption
over-correct
over-crowding (current term)
over-egg
over-egged
over-egging
over-eggs
over-embellished
over-greedy
over-hedging
over-illumination
over-insolently
over-old
over-polite
over-rate
over-rated
over-refine

Literary usage of Over-crowding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1874)
"You will often find the most aggravated over-crowding in streets in which ... To remove the over-crowding classes from ill to well built and "well found" ..."

2. Public Health Papers and Reports by American Public Health Association (1906)
"(12) "As to over-crowding: Little, I fear, can be accomplished in the case of railway coaches. However, an effort should be made at least in the case of ..."

3. The Insurance Cyclopáedia: Being a Dictionary of the Definition of Terms by Cornelius Walford (1873)
"It is quite possible that a large number of persons might live in health, and without over-crowding, upon a comparatively small area; ..."

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