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ˌoverfulˈfil, v.
Also (U.S.) overfulfill.
[over- 24.]
†1. trans. To fill more than full, fill too full. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. xx. (Bodl. MS.) lf. 42/2 In suche doinge..þe stomake is ouere fulfilde and istreiȝte to swiþe. 1538Starkey England i. iii. 76 Thys body ys replenyschyd and ouerfulfyllyd wyth many yl humorys.
2. To achieve more than the mere fulfilment of (a plan, goal, etc.); to reach (a target) before the expected time. So ˌoverfulˈfilment, (U.S.) -fulfillment.
1950Sun (Baltimore) 2 June 14/7 When the Russian whalers returned to their home port of Odessa on the Black Sea they had overfulfilled their production plan by 29·9 per cent. Ibid. 7 Aug. 10/2 If present rates [of Soviet production] are continued to December 31, a massive overfulfillment of the 1950 goals will result. 1952Koestler Arrow in Blue 70 To omit a single one [sc. slogan] —say ‘the strengthening of the production-offensive for the over-fulfilment of the light metal industry's revised counter-plan’..would have laid the lecturer open to the accusation [etc.]. 1964K. G. Lockyer Introd. Critical Path Analysis vii. 61 Bars to the left of the observation line represent under-fulfillment, whilst those to the right represent over-fulfillment. 1966J. Porter Sour Cream iv. 51 Even the waitressess had something to take their minds off their feet and the difficulties of over-fulfilling the latest five-year-plan. Ibid. v. 68 The current ten-year plan was going to be over-fulfilled. 1971New Society 25 Mar. 475/2 Factories have undertaken commitments to overfulfil production targets in honour of the congress. 1975Nature 16 Oct. 527/2 Soviet planners see agriculture as being essentially one more branch of industrial production, amenable to the same system of fulfilment and overfulfilment of plans. 1976Chinese Law & Govt. IX. 101 We should fulfill or overfulfill the Fourth Five-Year Plan in 1975. |