oversupply

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There is an oversupply of humans and an undersupply of space.

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the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall

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noun

the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall

verb

supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for oversupply.

noun

the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall

verb

supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"

Example sentences

There is an oversupply of humans and an undersupply of space.

This solution was less than ideal, because of the huge oversupply in the Chinese domestic market.

Once that oversupply is corrected, you end up with fisherman working for a good wage to provide cheaper food to thousands of people.

"Anyone who tells you that you shouldnt be in tech, or that the current market situation will create an oversupply of people in tech, is doing you a massive disservice.

One of the things people don't like to talk about is how the economy handles the oversupply of college graduates: use bright line rules to get people out of the job market.

That's a callous winner-takes-all system with a built in oversupply to lower prices---like those competitions where you get webdesigners to work for free to make a logo.

The reason why dumb money saturates the startup discussion is the same reason why the interest rates are low - dumb money is at oversupply, so they are trying to get into every credible investment opportunity.