overproduction

overproduction

English

Etymology

over- +‎ production

Noun

overproduction (countable and uncountable, plural overproductions)

1. The production of more of a commodity than can be used or sold.
   • 1938, Louis MacNeice, Bagpipe Music

     Mrs. Carmichael had her fifth, looked at the job with repulsion, / Said to the midwife 'Take it away; I'm through with overproduction'.

Related terms

• overproduce

Translations

the production of more of a commodity than can be used or sold

Albanian: mbiprodhim (sq) m Bulgarian: свръхпроизводство n (svrǎhproizvodstvo) French: surproduction (fr) f Hungarian: túltermelés (hu) Irish: (of result) rótháirgeacht f, (of process) rótháirgeadh m Polish: hiperprodukcja (pl) f Russian: кри́зис перепроизво́дства (ru) m (krízis pereproizvódstva) Spanish: sobreproducción (es) f, superproducción f