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Oversupply

noun

The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall. Synonyms: glut, surfeit.

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"Oversupply" Quotes from Famous Books

... part or organ the better its equipment for carrying out the work of that organ and the more does it tend to express itself. Nature IS an efficiency expert and doesn't give you an oversupply of anything without ...

— How to Analyze People on Sight - Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types • Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict

... with gravel three or four feet below the surface a tree might actually die although there was plenty of water at a depth of 15 feet. There is more danger that the trees died from lack of water than from an oversupply of it, and it is quite likely also that you could pump and irrigate to advantage large trees which did not seem to be up to the standard of the whole place, as manifested by lack of bearing, smallness of leaves, which would be apt to turn yellow too ...

— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson

Words linked to "Oversupply" : supply, flood, superabundance, overmuch, render, overmuchness, furnish, overabundance, provide