Definition of Oversupply

1. Noun. The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall.

Exact synonyms: Glut, Surfeit
Generic synonyms: Overabundance, Overmuch, Overmuchness, Superabundance
Derivative terms: Glut

2. Verb. Supply with an excess of. "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
Exact synonyms: Flood, Glut
Generic synonyms: Furnish, Provide, Render, Supply
Derivative terms: Flood, 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

oversubtile
oversubtle
oversuds
oversudsed
oversudses
oversudsing
oversulfated
oversum
oversums
oversung
oversup
oversupped
oversupping
oversupplied
oversupplies
oversupply (current term)
oversupplying
oversups
oversure
oversuspicious
overswam
overswarm
overswarmed
overswarming
overswarms
oversway
oversways
oversweet
oversweeten
oversweetened

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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