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
Both platinum and palladium seem likely to continue outperforming as a decade of oversupply gives way to signs of a shortage developing.
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Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Downtown rents are essentially unchanged since 2021, despite extreme oversupply.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 29 May 2025
But due to high interest rates, lack of lending support and an oversupply of apartments, according to Peebles, construction was moved from this summer to 2026.
—Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 6 June 2025
There are other signals that the rush into electric cars has created oversupply.
—Evelyn Cheng,bernice Ooi, CNBC, 5 June 2025
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Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Downtown rents are essentially unchanged since 2021, despite extreme oversupply.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 29 May 2025
But due to high interest rates, lack of lending support and an oversupply of apartments, according to Peebles, construction was moved from this summer to 2026.
—Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 6 June 2025
There are other signals that the rush into electric cars has created oversupply.
—Evelyn Cheng,bernice Ooi, CNBC, 5 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for oversupply
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oversupply
Noun
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Meanwhile, the too-young Thunder are too-young no longer, an NBA champion with a surplus of draft capital still to burn.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
23 June 2025
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Speaking on Monday at Bloomberg’s Future of Finance in Ireland event in Dublin, Donohoe said that the government must use that surplus with an eye on the longer term.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
23 June 2025
Noun
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The lavish display of money and excess has provoked backlash from local residents and environmental demonstrators who protest the use of the Unesco world heritage site as a playground for the super-rich.—
Karen Gilchrist,
CNBC,
27 June 2025
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An excess of Helena, which no one, least of all me, wanted.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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“Oversupply.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversupply. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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