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Definition of Oversubscribe
1. Verb. To subscribe to an extent that is greater than the availability ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oversubscribe
1. [v -SCRIBED, -SCRIBING, -SCRIBES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversubscribe
Literary usage of Oversubscribe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The War Purse of Indiana: The Five Liberty Loans and War Savings and Thrift by Walter Sidney Greenough, Indiana Historical Commission (1922)
"... expressed at Loan headquarters, that Indiana might oversubscribe her allotment
in the first ten days and all efforts were directed to that end. ..."
2. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1901)
"... of manager Bowker Chemical Company, Elizabeth, NJ [NB — The first to "
oversubscribe " to the decennial pamphlet now being compiled by the secretary. ..."
3. United States in the World War by John Bach McMaster (1920)
"William Jennings Bryan urged the American people to stand back of the President
and oversubscribe. "There are but two sides to a war, our country's side and ..."
4. American Women and the World War by Ida Clyde Gallagher Clarke (1918)
"Captains of industry, wage earners, boy scouts, everybody, joined in the great
Red Cross Campaign. Not only did Omaha oversubscribe the war fund in the ..."
5. Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials by Theodore Roosevelt (1921)
"Let us, as part payment of our great debt, subscribe and oversubscribe to the
bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan. This is a service which lies within the ..."
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