overdevelopment
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- noun
- /ˌoʊvərdɪˈvɛləpmənt/
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- Who out there isn't thrilled with the pace and quality of overdevelopment in this city?
- concerns about overdevelopment
Examples
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More than forty years before Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Mary Austin was serving as an important force in protecting arid regions from overdevelopment.
Fiction book (1996) -
435 endangered species are indicators of the harmful results of overdevelopment, warning of both negative economic impacts.
Academic text (1998) -
The problem is not really underdevelopment in the Third World, but overdevelopment brought by the West.
Academic text (1994) -
We need to do something about the overdevelopment of the university and the educational complex and the underdevelopment of the thinking of the American people.
Academic text (2006) -
It seems like the city should put the brakes on any overdevelopment of waterfront property.
Blog text (7) -
This bird has been pushed to the brink by short-sighted and greedy overdevelopment of shorefront areas.
Blog text (20) -
In fact, there is a protected zone already on the other side of Nostrand to protect the bungalows on Haring Street from the effects of overdevelopment.
Blog text (7) -
Are Brooklyn residents near the proposed Atlantic Yards footprint who are concerned about overdevelopment merely selfish owners of "million-dollar brownstones," as a push-poll suggested?
Blog text (5) -
Quality of life seemed to be at its best during the mid-to-late 1990s, when crime was low, rent was affordable for most, businesses were thriving, and we weren't overrun with overdevelopment.
Blog text (26) -
The overdevelopment of coastal areas has led to significant habitat loss for marine wildlife.
Synonyms
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Building more houses or offices in an area than people need, leaving many empty spaces
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Too many buildings built in one area that cause crowding and less green space
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A time when a business grows too fast or too large and causes money problems
A lot more building or growth than normal that harms a place
Uneven or harmful growth of an area that causes social and environmental problems
Antonyms
How Developed
Surface Forms
Morphology
overdevelopment = development (transparent) = over + develop + ment
Formed by adding the productive prefix 'over-' to 'development' with the usual sense of excessive building/expansion, which is straightforward for learners.
Etymology
Overdevelopment comes from over- 'too much' and development 'building or growth'. So when we talk about towns or coasts, overdevelopment means building too much in an area, causing crowding, loss of green space, and harm to nature.