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ˈover-proˈduction
[over- 29 b.]
Excessive production; production in excess of the demand. Also attrib.
1822Cobbett Weekly Reg. 9 Mar. 607 You insist upon over-production. 1863Fawcett Pol. Econ. iii. xiv, Over-production has two meanings; it may either signify that commodities produced cannot be sold at remunerative prices, or it may signify that commodities are produced which are really not wanted. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! iv. 233 The present age is one of overproduction. 1948G. Crowther Outl. Money (rev. ed.) v. 151 ‘Over-production’ and a slump result. Ibid. 153 The ‘over-production’ theory, then, like the ‘under-consumption’ theory, is, in a sense, sometimes right, but for the wrong reasons. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 19 Jan. (Suppl.) 50/3 Over-production of Eggs sank prices to rock-bottom in 1959. 1974M. B. Brown Econ. of Imperialism viii. 199 The general opinion held in Germany in the mid 1880s was that colonies were needed to solve the problem of overproduction. 1974Country Life 26 Dec. 2019/1 In America there has been overproduction resulting in shutdowns. 1975New Yorker 21 Apr. 7/2 She is most effective as a live performer of her own material—projecting a loose, direct, unpretentious, spontaneous style that, unfortunately, is lacking on her records, which suffer from overproduction. |