Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Excessive production; production of commodities in excess of demand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Excessive production; supply beyond the demand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
production of more of a commodity than can be used or sold
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun too much production or more than expected
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Examples
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On top of that, we have what I call the overproduction problem.
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy M.D. Walter C. Willett 2005
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On top of that, we have what I call the overproduction problem.
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy M.D. Walter C. Willett 2005
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Globalization may cause rebalancing of employment among the industries, but not unemployment on net, because overproduction is impossible — there is always demand for labor.
Getting Ricardo Wrong, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And people who are not only permitted to run at large, but actually elected to office, prattle of "overproduction" -- while people are starving in nakedness; proposes to eliminate pauperism and inaugurate the industrial millennium by placing fiddle-strings on the free-list or increasing the tariff-tax on toothpicks -- to relieve the country of the commercial jim-jams by means of the gold cure.
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I agree with him that overproduction is a huge issue for this category, with many more books produced than can be shelved, but I think that’s a sign of demand perception.
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But more goods are always produced than can be purchased (also called overproduction), especially when wages are constantly being driven down to boost profits.
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Therefore, let them use the money to make propaganda or to pay the sugar workers the overproduction, which is still pending.
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We come now to the second element of the whole process of evolution, namely, what we may call overproduction or excessive multiplication.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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Human error is part of the process, as is deliberate overproduction, which is often sanctioned.
Forbes.com: News Forbes Blogs 2011
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In addition to the belief that "everyone should attend college," politicians continue to lobby for ever expanding student bodies which crunches the supply pool of qualified professors (existing supply gluts or "overproduction" because of licensing regulations stating who can or cannot teach -- though that specifically is more of a problem in Primary/Secondary schools).
College Tuition, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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