overcapacity

noun

over·ca·pac·i·ty ˌō-vər-kə-ˈpa-sə-tē

-ˈpa-stē

: excessive capacity for production or services in relation to demand

Examples of overcapacity in a Sentence

The airlines are lowering their prices because of an overcapacity of seats.

Recent Examples on the Web But a longer-term driver is Beijing’s decades-old strategy of favoring industrial production over all else, resulting in enormous overcapacity, wrote Zongyuan Zoe Liu, a China scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations, in Foreign Affairs magazine. —

Mahnoor Khan, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2024 The amount of Chinese overcapacity, its control of related supply chains and critical materials, and its opaque subsidies dwarf prior examples such as Japan and Korea in the late twentieth century. —

Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2024 The world could soon face overcapacity in legacy chips, as already seen in other industries like electric vehicles and solar panels. —

Anniek Bao, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2024 Despite vehement denials by Beijing, Chinese industrial policy has for decades led to recurring cycles of overcapacity. —

Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for overcapacity

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