overproduction
IPA: ˈoʊvɝprʌdˈʌkʃʌn
noun
- The production of more of a commodity than can be used or sold.
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Examples of "overproduction" in Sentences
- On top of that, we have what I call the overproduction problem.
- Human error is part of the process, as is deliberate overproduction, which is often sanctioned.
- Therefore, let them use the money to make propaganda or to pay the sugar workers the overproduction, which is still pending.
- We come now to the second element of the whole process of evolution, namely, what we may call overproduction or excessive multiplication.
- But more goods are always produced than can be purchased (also called overproduction), especially when wages are constantly being driven down to boost profits.
- I agree with him that overproduction is a huge issue for this category, with many more books produced than can be shelved, but I think that’s a sign of demand perception.
- Globalization may cause rebalancing of employment among the industries, but not unemployment on net, because overproduction is impossible — there is always demand for labor.
- In addition to the belief that "everyone should attend college," politicians continue to lobby for ever expanding student bodies which crunches the supply pool of qualified professors (existing supply gluts or "overproduction" because of licensing regulations stating who can or cannot teach -- though that specifically is more of a problem in Primary/Secondary schools).
- And people who are not only permitted to run at large, but actually elected to office, prattle of "overproduction" -- while people are starving in nakedness; proposes to eliminate pauperism and inaugurate the industrial millennium by placing fiddle-strings on the free-list or increasing the tariff-tax on toothpicks -- to relieve the country of the commercial jim-jams by means of the gold cure.
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