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Definition of Oversubscribed
1. Adjective. Sold in excess of available supply especially season tickets. "The opera season was oversubscribed"
Definition of Oversubscribed
1. Adjective. Having insufficient capacity to meet the demand of those who are interested. ¹
2. Verb. (past of oversubscribe) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oversubscribed
1. oversubscribe [v] - See also: oversubscribe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversubscribed
Literary usage of Oversubscribed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. King's Complete History of the World War ...: 1914-1918. Europe's War with by William C. King (1922)
"The subscriptions came pouring in at once and on June 15th, when the lists closed,
it was found that the Liberty Loan had been greatly oversubscribed, ..."
2. The American Library Annual: Including Index to Dates of Current Events (1915)
"... oversubscribed. N ю Russia notifies Turkey that ¡I she refuses permission for
the Black Sea fleet to go through the Dardanelles in accordance with ..."
3. Internal War Loans of Belligerent Countries: Also Consolidation Loan of by National City Company (1918)
"The first three loans of Canada were oversubscribed from 73.3% to 168%, ...
The Fourth War Loan of Canada was oversubscribed 179% and accepted in full. ..."
4. Capital (1888)
"In 19.71 a new issue of Swadeshi Polytex was oversubscribed more than eight times.
But the Company did not disappoint any applicant. ..."
5. The War Purse of Indiana: The Five Liberty Loans and War Savings and Thrift by Walter Sidney Greenough, Indiana Historical Commission (1922)
"Merle Gochenour, county chairman of Kosciusko, wired that his county had
oversubscribed at 8:30 o'clock that morning.31 Walter J. Riley, East Chicago banker ..."
6. Rural Credits: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Joint Committee on by United States Congress (1916)
"I think that if it were done as securely as in Germany the bonds would be
oversubscribed and oversubscribed. There would be no trouble whatever to sell the ..."
7. From the First Shot: A Picture History of the Great Waredited by Hannah White edited by Hannah White (1918)
"June 15, 1917—Liberty loan oversubscribed. June 26, 1917—American army contingent
reaches a French port. When the German Government resumed its policy of ..."
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