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verb (used with object)

to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite.

to feed or fill to excess; cloy.

to flood (the market) with a particular item or service so that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.

to choke up: to glut a channel.

verb (used without object)

to eat to satiety or to excess.

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noun

a full supply.

an excessive supply or amount; surfeit.

an act of glutting or the state of being glutted.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English gluten, back formation from glutun glutton¹

Related forms

glut·ting·ly, adverb

o·ver·glut, verb (used with object), -glut·ted, -glut·ting.

un·glut·ted, adjective

Synonyms
1. surfeit, stuff, satiate. 5. gorge, cram. 7. surplus, excess, superabundance.

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The international economic crisis is the revenge of the global saving glut.

The fact that there is a glut of candidates for few job positions seems more plausible.

Globalisation of the world wine business may lead to a wine glut.

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The international economic crisis is the revenge of the global saving glut.

The fact that there is a glut of candidates for few job positions seems more plausible.

Globalisation of the world wine business may lead to a wine glut.

The glut halved prices for fishermen in the past few years, to between three and four dollars a pound.

The result is a glut of people with advanced degrees, and a lack of cutting edge industries that can employ them.

Now, thanks to a glut of sellers, those prices have dropped.

One obstacle to a housing recovery is the glut of unsold homes.

There may be a glut of college grads due to the one-child policy.

Of the glut of books on the financial crisis, our correspondents suggest the few worth reading.

The glut has halved prices for fishermen in the past few years, to between three and four dollars a pound.

But with the improved methods of extraction, the price has fallen dramatically due to a glut.

Here's a neat twist on the glut of beautiful-but-impossible-to-read watches filling online stores these days.

But soaring marketing costs and a glut of art films dented the profitability and reliability of boutique divisions.

Economists should have been more worried about the housing bubble and a lousy allocation of capital from the savings glut.

But the industry ended up with a glut of beef and over the last few weeks more companies have offered their meat for sale.

The resulting glut caused poultry prices to drop by two-thirds.

Part of the point is to free art from the glut of material overproduction.

And yet many coffee growers are facing ruin because of soaring production and a worldwide glut.

EToys, also facing a glut of holiday orders, set an earlier-than-average deadline for guaranteed on-time deliveries.

If investment rises, the savings glut will quickly disappear.

The fact that there is a glut of silicon this year is irrelevant.

The glut of shipping capacity has forced down rates.

LA's contentment glut had come as close as anything ever does in this town to reaching crisis proportions.

But that has created the opposite problem: a glut that has helped to push many electricity companies deep into debt.

Even though fewer houses are being built, the glut of unsold homes is growing.

China, that represents the best remaining hope for an industry suffering globally from sluggish growth and a capacity glut.

Vietnamese coffee-growers have also suffered because of the glut in the market.

They provided a glut of cheap, easy capital which fed the housing bubble.

Life has been tougher lower down the ladder, where credit is tight and there is a glut of unoccupied homes.

World central banks have collectively created a credit glut.

Thanks to stricter lending standards and a glut of properties on the market, house-building has slowed sharply.

But animal welfare groups worry that the toyger frenzy will eventually add to the glut of homeless.

The same drugs cause a glut of extracellular dopamine at the.

The two announcements come as sellers of defunct data centers are already grappling with a long-standing glut of capacity.

As farmers' markets boom, some see a glut in the making.

By mid-August the action shifts to a nearby stream, where the bears glut on spawning salmon and teach their cubs how to fish.

Dairy farmers have a dilemma: what to do with cows and a growing glut of milk as prices drop sharply.

Following the glut of games that release during the winter months, we're faced with a drought during the summer.

Mexico has a glut of expensive resorts which all are struggling for break-even status.

Under normal conditions, that small glut would quickly have disappeared in a bust on the present scale.

The glut of patients poses several major challenges, especially in the blood supply.

Environmental regulations, which many feared would cause a disposal shortage, actually helped spur the glut.

There has been a glut in the market, and fish have been thrown away, it is said.

Reynolds aggressively promoted aluminum's use in consumer goods and packaging to avoid a glut after.

Thanks to a building boom in the past few years, there is a glut of cinemas.

With a glut of high-end homes for sale, attracting brokers to open houses is a challenge.

Often the new models come so hot on the heels of the old that the sense is of a glut to be stockpiled pending distribution.

One reason is a combination of stagnant demand and a growing glut of supply.

The glut of foreclosed homes creates a self-reinforcing cycle.

Some members complain that condensates have aggravated the glut in oil supplies.

There are also fears of a new supply glut as owners are tempted by stabilising prices to put their homes back on to the market.

The glut of applications means admissions offices must deny an increasing proportion of students.

The inevitable result was today's higher prices, which will probably lead to glut and falling prices tomorrow.

But with a glut of new apartments gathering dust bunnies on the market, real estate.

By all accounts, the global construction boom over the last five years has produced a glut of vacation homes for sale.

Residential investment has collapsed, but a glut of unsold homes means that prices have much further to drop.

By historical standards there is a huge glut of unsold homes on the market.

Falling opium prices, due to a glut on the market, mean that wheat is now a viable alternative.

At the moment, diesel is in short supply and there is a glut of fuel oil.

There is a strong case for cutting public debt at a faster rate before the world economy's liquidity glut dries.

There was a glut of fibre-optic cable and prices tumbled.

Germany's saving glut allowed others to spend freely and to run up large debts.

N recent years, a small but pungent subgenre of extreme female confession has emerged from the general glut of published memoirs.

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World English Dictionary

glut (ɡlʌt)

—n
1.	an excessive amount, as in the production of a crop, often leading to a fall in price
2.	the act of glutting or state of being glutted

—vb , gluts, glutting, glutted
3.	to feed or supply beyond capacity
4.	to supply (a market) with a commodity in excess of the demand for it
5.	to cram full or choke up: to glut a passage

[C14: probably from Old French gloutir, from Latin gluttīre; see glutton¹]

'gluttingly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

glut

early 14c., "to swallow too much, to feed to repletion," probably from O.Fr. gloter "to swallow, gulp down," from L. gluttire "swallow, gulp down," from PIE base *glu- "to swallow" (cf. Rus. glot "draught, gulp"). The noun (1530s), from the verb, originally meant "a gulp;" meaning "condition of being

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full or sated" is 1570s; mercantile sense is first recorded 1590s.

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Cultural Dictionary

glut definition

An oversupply of goods on the market.

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