Definition of Overcapacity

1. Noun. A capacity for the production of a commodity or product that is in excess of what is needed ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overcapacity

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcapacity

overcalculations
overcall
overcalled
overcaller
overcallers
overcalling
overcalls
overcame
overcanopied
overcanopies
overcanopy
overcanopying
overcapable
overcapacities
overcapacity (current term)
overcapitalisation
overcapitalise
overcapitalization
overcapitalizations
overcapitalize
overcapitalized
overcapitalizes
overcapitalizing
overcard
overcards
overcare
overcared
overcareful
overcares

Literary usage of Overcapacity

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

1. Coming In From The Cold: Improving District Heating Policy In Transition by International Energy Agency (2004)
"overcapacity is a problem that mainly affects transition countries. While individual systems in the West may hove overcapacity, the same general problem ..."

2. Using Market Mechanisms to Manage Fisheries: Smoothing the Path by Bertrand Le Gallic (2006)
"10 Ward, Thunberg, and Mace (2005) provide a definition of overcapacity that is a ... This definition of overcapacity differs from excess capacity which ..."

3. Financial Support to Fisheries: Implications for Sustainable Development by Anthony Cox, Carl-Christian Michael Roedsted Schmidt (2006)
"Excess capacity and overcapacity The OECD Fisheries Committee defines excess harvesting capacity as the "harvesting capacity in excess of the minimum amount ..."

4. Managing Small-Scale Fisheries: Alternative Directions and Methods by Fikret Berkes (2001)
"International policy discussions of the fishing fleet overcapacity problem ... Developing countries with small-scale fisheries with severe overcapacity are ..."

5. Expanding Horizons: Civil Aviation in Europe. An Action Programme for the Futureby DIANE Publishing Company by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"overcapacity Background Present overcapacity of Community air carriers was ... overcapacity was further aggravated by market disruptions due to the Gulf ..."

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