Oversupply \O`ver*sup*ply"\, v. t.
To supply in excess.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Oversupply \O"ver*sup*ply`\, n.
An excessive supply; a supply in excess of demand.
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A general oversupply or excess of all commodities. --J.
S. Mill.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
oversupply
n : the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn:
glut, surfeit]
v : supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis
shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the
Orient" [syn: flood, glut]
WordNet (r) 2.0
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "oversupply":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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