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Oversupply

Definition: Oversupply

Oversupply

Noun

1. The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall.

Verb

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "oversupply" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Oversupply

DomainDefinitions

Finance

The state of the market for a commodity in which more of the commodity is available for purchase than consumers choose to buy at the prevailing price. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Oversupply

Synonyms: surfeit (n), flood (v), glut (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Oversupply

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Redundancy

Noun: redundancy, redundance; too much, too many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation; nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion; (plenty); repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share; more than enough; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener; turgescence; (expansion); overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow; inundation; (water); avalanche.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Oversupply

English words defined with "oversupply": inventory controlTo glut the market. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Oversupply

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The threshold of drug availability that can lead to oversupply and consequent illicit use is unknown. (references)

Business

There is presently an oversupply of dentists in Australia. (references)

The short-term market for agricultural machinery is depressed, based on certain macro-economic factors (mainly the current oversupply in the maize market). (references)

During the next few years, the government will continue to control the importation of some fertilizers, which may be more stringent in order to avoid oversupply in the local market. (references)

Economic History

Uk

Intensity of competition and oversupply has become a market barrier in some sectors. (references)

Romania

As this segment of the market is currently threatened by an oversupply, the foreign investment market is now focussing on small to medium-size properties with prices in the range of $1-2 million. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Oversupply

"Oversupply" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "Oversupply" is used about 24 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)95.83%2372,767
Adjective (general or positive)4.17%1339,140
                    Total100.00%24N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Oversupply

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

oversupply

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Oversupply

Language Translations for "oversupply"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

furnizoj në mënyrë të tepruar. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تزويد مبالغ فيه. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

презапасявам. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

供"过多. (various references)

   

Czech

  

nadmìrné zásobení trhu, nadmìrná zásoba. (various references)

   

Danish

  

overforsyning (excess supply, supply surplus), forsyningsoverskud (supply surplus). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

overbevoorrading (supply surplus), voorzienningsoverschot (supply surplus). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ylitarjonta (market glut, overproduction). (various references)

   

French

  

offre excessive (overproduction), offre excédentaire, surapprovisionnement, surabondance de l'offre, pléthore de l'offre, excédent d'approvisionnement, excès d'offre. (various references)

   

German

  

Versorgungsüberschuss (supply surplus), Ueberversorgung (supply surplus). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προμηθεύω περισσότερα του δέοντοσ, πληθώρα (a spate of, plethora, riot, spate, superabundance), υπερπροσφορά (excess supply). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

túltáplál (overfed, overfeed, to coddle, to overfeed), túlságosan felszerel, túl bõ készlet. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

供給過多 (excessive supply). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きょうきゅうかた (excessive supply). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oversupplyay

   

Portuguese

  

supersensível (supersensitive), excedente de aprovisionamento (supply surplus), aprovisionamento em excesso (supply surplus). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

поставлять слишком много. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

preobilno snabdeti (overstock), prenapajati. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

oferta sobreabundante (excess supply), oferta excesiva (excess supply), proveer en exceso, excedente de abastecimiento (supply surplus), abastecimiento excesivo (supply surplus). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

fazlasıyla karşılama, fazlalık (bulge, de trop, excess, excrescence, glut, margin, more, overage, overbalance, overplus, plus, residuary, super, superfluities, superfluity, supernumerary, surplus, surplusage). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

постачати надто багато, постачати надмірно. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự cung cấp quá mức. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Oversupply

Derivations

Words beginning with "oversupply": oversupplying. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Oversupply"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "oversupply" (pronounced ō'versuplī")
5-s u p l ī"misapply, resupply, supply.
4-u p l ī"apply, reply.
3-p l ī"comply, imply, ply.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Oversupply

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-l-o-p-p-r-s-u-v-y"

-1 letter: purposely.

-2 letters: overplus, resupply.

-3 letters: elusory, leprosy, leprous, loppers, louvers, louvres, overply, oversup, pelorus, plovers, polypus, propels, propyls, pulpers, purples, purpose, purveys, pylorus, pyropes, sporule, suppler, velours, voyeurs.

-4 letters: lopers, lopper, loupes, louver, louvre, lovers, osprey, overly, ovules, peplos, peplus, plover, plyers, polers, polyps, popery, poseur, proles, propel, propyl, proves, pulers, pulper, pulser, purely.

 Words containing the letters "e-l-o-p-p-r-s-u-v-y"
 

+1 letter: purposively.

 

+3 letters: oversupplying.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Oversupply


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 76 65 72 73 75 70 70 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110011 01110101 01110000 01110000 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#118 &#101 &#114 &#115 &#117 &#112 &#112 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0076 0065 0072 0073 0075 0070 0070 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

49887184858782827891

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Oversupply"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, ‏الألبانية, ‏الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, Albanees, albanialainen, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець

Arabic

‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتانarabishte, ‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arab, арабский, arapski, árabe, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, ‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, български, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarialainen, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译kinez, ‏الصينية, ‏لغة الصين, ‏صيني, ‏الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , chinês, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць

Czech

slovník, definice, překladçek, ‏تشيكي, ‏اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, ‏التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsedanisht, danishte, ‏لغة الدانمركية, ‏نوع كعك, ‏دانماركي, датски език, датски, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dán, dinamarquês, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatieholandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, holandês, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã"

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutosfinlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, ‏اللغة الفنلندية, ‏فنلندية, ‏فنلندي, фински език, фински, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finn, finlandês, finês, финский, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiếng Phần-lan

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrëngjishte, frëng, franceze, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏فرنسي, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiongjerman, ‏ضرب من الرقص, ‏جرماني, ‏الماني, ‏اللغة الألمانية, ‏المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , nìmec, nìmecký, tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, német, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση‏يوناني, ‏اللغة اليونانية, ‏الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, 希腊语, 希臘語 , řek, řecký, řeètina, græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás‏مجري, ‏المجري, ‏الهنغاري, ‏هنغاري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , maïarský, maïarština, maïar, ungarer, Hongaarse, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 japonez, ‏يابانية, ‏ياباني, ‏اليابانية, ‏اللغة اليابانية, японски език, японци, японски, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japonský, japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, Japonca, японська мова, японський, японка, японець, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょjaponez, ‏يابانية, ‏ياباني, ‏اليابانية, ‏اللغة اليابانية, японски език, японци, японски, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japonský, japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, Japonca, японська мова, японський, японка, японець, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugez, portugalisht, ‏اللغة البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalský, portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, ‏الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, ruština, ruský, russer, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, ロシア語 , ロシア", русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeturk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turecký, tureètina, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщенняukrainisht, ukrainas, ‏أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, ‏الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, 乌克兰, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, Oekraïens, ukrainalainen, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець, người U-kren tiếng U-kren

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchvietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, 越南語 , 越南语, 越南 , vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnameser, vietnamilainen, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, ベトナ 人 , ベトナ じ", vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, ‏الإنجليزية, ‏الأنكليزي, ‏إنكليزي, ‏ترجمة إنكليزية, ‏اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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