Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Excessive capacity for the production of commodities or the delivery of services in relation to actual need.
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- noun A
capacity for theproduction of acommodity orproduct that is inexcess of what is needed
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Examples
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And when they do stop, they'll drown in overcapacity, and they won't be building new skyscrapers for a very long time.
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Shadow Over Asia Vitaliy N. Katsenelson 2010
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And when they do stop, they'll drown in overcapacity, and they won't be building new skyscrapers for a very long time.
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Shadow Over Asia Vitaliy N. Katsenelson 2010
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And when they do stop, they'll drown in overcapacity, and they won't be building new skyscrapers for a very long time.
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Shadow Over Asia Vitaliy N. Katsenelson 2010
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And when they do stop, they'll drown in overcapacity, and they won't be building new skyscrapers for a very long time.
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Shadow Over Asia Vitaliy N. Katsenelson 2010
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Yes, I think the main difference is that when we went into this last time, there was considerable and long-term overcapacity still in the marketplace.
unknown title 2012
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But that didn't address broader industry concerns, such as overcapacity in the auto-parts industry.
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That suggests that the investment boom of the past few years has not led to the kind of overcapacity that heralds a corrective plunge in investment as seen during the "lost decade."
Japan's Stress Test 2008
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The amount of damage that has been done to the Asian infrastructure and financial system and the enormous overcapacity which is in existence can't be dealt with in a matter of months.
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And that brings us to the old chestnut of 'overcapacity' in Europe.
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This rapid growth led to an economic concept called "overcapacity".
unknown title 2009
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