overproduction
nounEtymology From over- + production.
1
The production of more of a commodity than can be used or sold.
- Mrs. Carmichael had her fifth, looked at the job with repulsion, / Said to the midwife 'Take it away; I'm through with overproduction'.1938, Louis MacNeice, Bagpipe Music:
- Derived terms
- elite overproduction
- Related terms
- overproduce, glut, overcapacity, overstock, oversupply