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oversupply
[ noun oh-ver-suh-plahy; verb oh-ver-suh-plahy ]
verb (used with object)
- to supply in excess.
oversupply
/ ˈəʊvəˌsəplaɪ /
noun
- the supply of too much or too many
verb
- tr to supply too much (material, etc) or too many (goods, people, etc)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of oversupply1
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Example Sentences
Last week, I talked about the oversupply of lawyers, and other graduate students.
The oversupply of graduate students in the humanities is much, much worse than the oversupply of lawyers.
The oversupply of ethanol can be seen by looking at the parade of ethanol producers heading to bankruptcy court.
In the end, there is a shortage of caution, an oversupply of food, and a mess that will take years to clean up.
That court decision has been a blessing and, perhaps, a curse—contributing to an oversupply of talent.
Just on a p. 140 hunch, I'll always want a considerable oversupply.
The making of cheese was known in ancient times, it having probably originated through a desire to utilize an oversupply of milk.
Nature IS an efficiency expert and doesn't give you an oversupply of anything without demanding that you use it.
I was interested in Tusser's "Christmas husbandly fare," notwithstanding some suggestion of gluttony in it and of oversupply.
Gigantic boulders, box-like bluffs, ragged rock-spires, cliffs and plateaus of bare rock were in oversupply.
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