overcapacity

Examples

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• Overcapacity has affected aircraft manufacturing in the industrialized countries.

  Academic text (1996)

• I think the overcapacity issue lies with developed nations.

  Blog text (13)

• The report identified the overcapacity of steel production in East and Southeast Asia.

  Academic text (2003)

• Our industry suffers substantially from overcapacity.

  Academic text (1991)

• The region has been suffering from a glut of overcapacity as demand evaporates in the face of brutal economic conditions.

  Blog text (15)

• European reliance on the car industry as an engine of economic growth and earner of foreign exchange led, in the late 1970s, to a large overcapacity in car manufacturing and aggressive competition among what have remained largely national trade names.

  Academic text (1990)

• By the mid-1990s, China had become the world's biggest exporter of textiles, but it was burdened by serious overcapacity.

  Academic text (2005)

• The factory is dealing with significant overcapacity due to a decrease in demand for its products.

• Many businesses in the textile industry face overcapacity, forcing them to lower prices to attract customers.

Synonyms

O

overabundance

vsovercapacity

7 5.7

Too much of something that is not needed

is about unused ability in industry, not general excess of things

O

overproduction

vsovercapacity

5 4.1

Making more goods than people can buy

stresses spare ability to make items rather than the extra output itself

O

oversupply

vsovercapacity

4 4.5

Too much of something like goods or houses that makes prices fall

refers to unused ability to produce rather than excess finished goods

O

oversaturation

vsovercapacity

6.5

There are more products or shops than customers, causing low sales

focuses on idle ability to make products rather than market fullness

How Full

overcapacity

• Specialized

3 5.7

to underproduce

1 6.5

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Etymology