单词 | overproduction |
释义 | overproductionn. 1. Excessive production; production in excess of demand. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > excess of production overproduction1822 overrun1905 1822 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 9 Mar. 607 You insist upon over-production. 1888 S. Moore tr. K. Marx & F. Engels Manifesto Communist Party i. 11 In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity—the epidemic of over-production. 1901 Science Nov. 15 776 The raised scar..resulting from the continued irritation of the original incision..and the over-production of reparative tissue lifting the design in welts. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 19 Jan. (Suppl.) 50/3 Over-production of Eggs sank prices to rock-bottom in 1959. 1990 Sci. Amer. June 24/3 Cushing's syndrome, a disorder that results from the over-production of cortisone. 2. Excessive attention to the production quality of a musical recording, broadcast, etc., to the detriment of the immediacy of the performance. ΚΠ 1975 New 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. 1993 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 24 Aug. 19 a [The] new album suffers from overproduction. 2000 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 26 Sept. (Baylife section) 4 The network's frequent features on athletes have fallen victim to overproduction. Those hyper-arty facial close-ups are so overused that they have already become parody. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1822 |
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