1The action or result of spilling over or spreading into another area.

1. 1.1 A surplus population moving or forced to move from an overcrowded area to a less heavily populated one.
   organizing arrangements for overspill from the cities

   Example sentencesExamples

   • It's become more than a relief, a emotional overspill, something to turn to.
   • ‘There are three official sites in York, but the main problem at those is an overspill of people.’
   • The modern balcony now accommodates the overspill of snackers.
   • By 1960 the nurseries had moved out to the south coast around Worthing or had sold up for Greater London overspill housing.
   • The arts and social science faculties of Paris university had been moved to an overspill site on the former shanty town of Nanterre in 1964, and had grown from 4,000 to 15,000 students by the autumn of 1967.
   • The authorities must take the blame for this for turning a blind eye to the town being used as a dumping ground for overspill areas, so we now have anti-social behaviour on a scale that many inner city areas never even see.
   • Like any successful event there was an overspill into another venue.
   • Georges Quay will have some overspill space and it remains to be seen what happens with Spencer Dock.
   • New Addington's not a bad council estate, as overspill estates go, but it is enormous and somewhat lacking in character.
   • It was very useful for overspill, which is why its character has changed.
   • People think it is some kind of overspill of London and don't realise the fantastic scenery.
   • The Business Academy, Bexley, which serves the south-east London overspill estates of Thamesmead and Erith, is the first of a new type of secondary school.
   • Created as one of the postwar new towns, it was first populated as an east London overspill.
   • The former Manchester council overspill estate has been transformed thanks to multi-million pound investment and the work of local people.
   • There was something inherently strange and alien about the flowers, but at the same time humble, like they were overspills from something much greater.
   • There are plenty of pensions and hotels willing to accommodate the overspill and your travel operator should be able to guide you as to which will suit you best.
   • There is also concern about the long-term parking situation as Pope's Avenue, at the side of Gifford House, is already suffering from the overspill of parking from the borough's controlled parking zone.
   • Norris Green was one of the first overspill areas built after the war.
   • There are a lot of people around that one would have thought would have ended up in Provence, plus a lot of overspill from the Dordogne.
   • An essence she might purchase in a tiny phial for a considerable sum is so abundant, here at its source, that it's no doubt poured roughly into barrels and the overspills trampled into mud - or so she fancies.
   • Fermoy, Co Cork, dropped from being in the litter-free category for the first time, to being placed ninth because of an overspill surrounding the recycling bank in the town's car park.
   • Walthamstow is like any other anonymous London suburb flourishing from the overspill of city dwellers from areas such as Islington and Hackney.
   • There are plenty of terry towel sun visors and orthopedic tennis shoes and lunchtime special offers, but it's also seeing a boom in high tech industries, picking up the overspill from California.
   • Under Operation Safeguard, police forces could charge whatever price they liked for the use of cells to house the overspill of convicted prisoners.
   • You could try to enforce a limit on the amount the binmen collect, but would leaving the overspill at the side of the road be a good thing?
   • People huddle under shelter and umbrellas as drops pour down and overspills cascade.
   • A marquee will take the overspill from the church as well as being the centre for refreshments and music after the Mass in honour of the Sacred Heart.
   • We now have an overspill of graduates with degrees in media studies, many of whom will never work in newspapers, television or PR, and an acute shortage of essential workers such as nurses, builders, joiners and plumbers.
   • So when it gets very busy, and the escalators clog up, the overspill cascades down them.
   • The Greater London Council was developing big new housing estates in the town to accommodate the London overspill.
   • Debut features, particularly those made by auteur directors, often tend to be overwrought with emotional content, the overspill of a 30-year build-up of frustration and raw talent.
   • They will also want to know if these controls will just cause an overspill of traffic on to secondary roads.
   • If the decisions are incorrect or made for the wrong reasons, they can transform a pleasant and attractive area into a sprawling mass of houses which will be far worse than the original Salford overspill.
   • Maybe it will come but we don't seem to be a destination for the overspill from Glasgow.
   • Are we being offered a relief road only on the condition that Leeds can build between 550/800 houses (which figure is correct?) creating an overspill area for Leeds?
   • She has an overspill of Power, so much that she can't keep it all inside of her.
   • All its 250 staff had to move to temporary overspill offices on the former Transco site at Heworth Green.
   • Like many people in this town she and her husband were part of the London overspill in the 60s.
   • Cumbernauld lies 13 miles north from Glasgow, and was developed from 1956 to accommodate Glasgow's overspill.
   • There is, however, strong evidence to show that the present great Fulmar spread is not of St Kildan birds, but a population overspill from Iceland.

   Synonyms

   spill, spillage, flood, flooding, inundation, excess water

   surplus, excess, additional people, additional things, extra people, extra things, remainder, overabundance