as in surplus
the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed
an oversupply of new homes is helping to drive down housing prices
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Recent Examples of oversupply
Plants need a continuous supply of nitrogen, but not an oversupply.
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Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2025
Production has remained at similar levels, so the oversupply has left the company trying to find new markets and increase its warehouse capacity, according to strategy documents and two people familiar with the matter.
—Anna Hirtenstein, USA Today, 11 July 2025
That is today; these new workers will need homes—and the metro's oversupply won't last forever, especially as builders have once again pulled the brakes on new-home construction projects.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Kimmel said the country has an oversupply domestically of scrap metal, if U.S. companies cannot export.
—Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
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Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2025
Production has remained at similar levels, so the oversupply has left the company trying to find new markets and increase its warehouse capacity, according to strategy documents and two people familiar with the matter.
—Anna Hirtenstein, USA Today, 11 July 2025
That is today; these new workers will need homes—and the metro's oversupply won't last forever, especially as builders have once again pulled the brakes on new-home construction projects.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Kimmel said the country has an oversupply domestically of scrap metal, if U.S. companies cannot export.
—Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for oversupply
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oversupply
Noun
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Worse, most individuals who want to set prices have biases that will guarantee resulting errors, creating shortages (think apartments in New York City) or surpluses (think U.S. government warehouses of cheese in the 1980s).—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Because of statutory and constitutional requirements, those totals put Beacon Hill in a position to stash more money into reserves, and set up another sizable surtax surplus that lawmakers will get to dole out to education and transportation investments.—
State House News Service,
Boston Herald,
9 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Ultimately, the Rolls-Royce Corniche had become a global symbol of sumptuous indulgence and unbridled excess; the automotive equivalent of lighting a Cuban cigar with a hundred-dollar bill.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
15 Aug. 2025
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Once seen as an impressive point of national pride, the excess of these designs and the earlier Rococo style became a symbol of a corrupt ruling class that served solely its own interests.—
Elizabeth Fazzare,
Architectural Digest,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Oversupply.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversupply. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.
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