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to overproduce

to overproduce

3 5.0
Make more of something than people need or can buy
  • verb
  • /ˌoʊvərprəˈduːs/
: sobreproducir
  • The factory had to overproduce toys to meet the unexpected holiday demand.
  • the body can overproduce
  • overproduce hormone
  • farmers will overproduce

In other words, from society's perspective, the steel company overproduces steel.

Examples

  • I didn't want to overproduce anything, anyway.

    Blog text (4)

  • You sign with them... ...they'll make you overproduce and then drop the price on you.

    Boom Town (1940)

  • The truth of the matter is we're paid to overproduce, and it was caused by these large multinational interests.

    Food, Inc. (2008)

  • As soon as something is overproduced, the margins go away.

    Blog text (28)

  • And they had constant shortages of some things and constantly overproduced other things as a result.

  • CA dairies overproduce about 1.7% per year, swamping their markets.

    Blog text (8)

  • Kuwait was overproducing its quota by about 80 percent.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The usual charge is that the free enterprise system overproduces goods associated with negative externalities and underproduces goods associated with positive externalities.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Farmers often overproduce crops, leading to a surplus that cannot be sold.

  • When companies overproduce goods, they may have to lower prices to sell the excess.

Synonyms

to oversupply
vsto overproduce
1 4.1

To give more of something than people can use

make more goods than are needed rather than focusing on giving them
to oversaturate
vsto overproduce
1 6.5

Fill a market or area with too much of something so people lose interest

make more goods than are needed without always causing value to drop

Antonyms

to underproduce
1 6.5

To make less than is needed

Phrasal Verbs

to overproduce for
6.7

To make more goods than are needed for an event or sale

How Much

to overproduce
3 5.0
to produce
  • Specialized
3 3.0

Surface Forms

overproduce infinitive
overproduced past
overproduced past participle
overproducing present participle
overproduces third person singular

Morphology

overproduce = produce (transparent) = over + produce

The prefix 'over-' meaning 'excessively' combines directly with the verb 'produce' to mean producing too much; this is a straightforward, productive formation.

Etymology

Overproduce joins over- ('too much') and produce ('to make'). So overproduce means to make more than is needed, wanted, or can be sold.