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Definition: Oversubscribed |
OversubscribedAdjective1. Sold in excess of available supply especially season tickets; "the opera season was oversubscribed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Finance | Qualifies a new issue of securities when the demand for the securities exceeds the number on offer. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Lycos has instituted a free Internet service in France, which has been oversubscribed to. Services that combine free access with local charges will find a large market in France, where local calls are still billed per minute. (references) | |
Economic History | Oman | With the only Omani university, Sultan Qaboos University already oversubscribed and the government committed to Omanization policy; expanded vocational training is a necessity. (references) |
Travel | Azerbaijan | The telephone system in Baku is oversubscribed and technologically inadequate, however placing a local call in Baku is generally reliable. (references) |
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| "Oversubscribed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 61.54% of the time. "Oversubscribed" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 61.54% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 23.08% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 12.82% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 39 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "oversubscribed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | overtegnet. (various references) | ||||
Dutch | overtekend. (various references) | ||||
French | sursouscrit. (various references) | ||||
German | überzeichneten, überzeichnete (oversubscribes). (various references) | ||||
Greek | υπερκάλυψη εγγραφής ομολογιακού δανείου. (various references) | ||||
Italian | sottoscrizione superata. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oversubscribeday | ||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "oversubscribed" (pronounced ō'versubskrī"bd) |
| 9 | -s u b s k r ī" b d | subscribed. |
| 6 | -s k r ī" b d | ascribed, circumscribed, described, inscribed, prescribed, proscribed, transcribed. |
| 4 | -r ī" b d | bribed. |
| 3 | -ī" b d | imbibed. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-c-d-e-e-i-o-r-r-s-s-u-v" | |
-1 letter: oversubscribe. | |
-3 letters: discoverers, rediscovers. | |
-4 letters: crossbreed, describers, discourser, discoverer, overissued, rediscover, reoviruses, subscribed, subscriber. | |
-5 letters: bedcovers, bescoured, bourrides, coderives, codrivers, crossbred, curbsides, debruises, describer, describes, descriers, devourers, disburser, discourse, discovers, disrobers, divorcees, divorcers, observers, overcured, overcures, overdress, overdries, overissue, overrides, oversides, recourses, recrossed, recursive, resources, riverbeds, robberies, rudesbies, scrubbers, scrubbier, sericeous, servicers, sorceries, subbreeds. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110011 01110101 01100010 01110011 01100011 01110010 01101001 01100010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O v e r s u b s c r i b e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0076 0065 0072 0073 0075 0062 0073 0063 0072 0069 0062 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4988718485876885698475687170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | tysker, Duitse, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | græker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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