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Definition of Overproduce
1. Verb. Produce in excess; produce more than needed or wanted.
2. Verb. Produce in excess. "The country overproduces cars"
Definition of Overproduce
1. Verb. To produce more of something than one can use or sell ¹
2. Verb. (context: music pejorative) To apply excess modifications to musical recordings, such as adding effects. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overproduce
1. [v -DUCED, -DUCING, -DUCES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overproduce
Literary usage of Overproduce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Third Power: Farmers to the Front by James Andrew Everitt (1903)
"If farmers get profitable prices, will they not overproduce? A. Take into
consideration the fact that in the last fifty years practically all our great ..."
2. Labeling of Biotechnology Products: Proceedings of a Workshop by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"Strains could be genetically engineered to overproduce bacteriocins to help ensure
the safety and extend the shelf-life of fermented products. ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"... the iris shows an increased adrenalin affectiveness; the liver, which acts
only through increased adrenalin content in the blood to overproduce sugar, ..."
4. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"... if the overproduce go to them, as a very great part of it does, nothing, not
even the parings of one's nails, can come back to the valley in exchange. ..."
5. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"This has nothing to do with overproduction in the sense given in (i), except in
eo far as the species preyed upon overproduce to compensate for the constant ..."
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