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Definition of Oversupply
1. Verb. Supply with an excess of. "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
Generic synonyms: Furnish, Provide, Render, Supply
Derivative terms: Flood, Glut
2. Noun. The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall.
Generic synonyms: Overabundance, Overmuch, Overmuchness, Superabundance
Derivative terms: Glut
Definition of Oversupply
1. v. t. To supply in excess.
2. n. An excessive supply.
Definition of Oversupply
1. Verb. To supply more than is needed ¹
2. Noun. An excessive supply ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oversupply
1. [v -PLIED, -PLYING, -PLIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversupply
Literary usage of Oversupply
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Agricultural Economics: A Selection of Materials in which Economic by Edwin Griswold Nourse (1916)
"THE EFFECT OF oversupply ON PRICE' By C. WOOD DAVIS From the close of the Civil
War until near the middle of the ninth decade, the farmer shared in the ..."
2. The Utility of All Kinds of Higher Schooling: An Investigation by Richard Teller Crane (1909)
"AN oversupply OF LITERATURE. But why have colleges to do even this publishing?
This country is enormously supplied with agricultural literature ..."
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