Meaning of OVERSUPPLY
| Pronunciation: | | [n]'owvursu`plI, [v]`owvursu'plI
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- [n] the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
- [v] supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
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| | Synonyms: | | flood, glut, glut, surfeit |
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| | See Also: | | furnish, overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness, provide, render, superabundance, supply | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\O`ver*sup*ply"\, v. t.
To supply in excess.
\O"ver*sup*ply`\, n.
An excessive supply.
A general oversupply or excess of all commodities. --J.
S. Mill.
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| | Related Terms: | | avalanche, balance, be prodigal with, bonus, deluge, dividend, embarras de richesses, engulf, enough, extra, extravagance, extravagancy, flood, flood the market, gratuity, inundate, inundation, lagniappe, landslide, lavishness, leftover, margin, money to burn, more than enough, overabundance, overaccumulation, overage, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdose, overequip, overfurnish, overlavish, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overplus, overpopulation, overprofusion, overprovender, overprovide, overprovision, overrun, oversell, overset, overstock, oversufficiency, overwhelm, plenty, plethora, plus, pourboire, prodigality, redundancy, remainder, something extra, spare, spate, superabundance, superflux, surplus, surplusage, swamp, tip, whelm |
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