overcrowdedo‧ver‧crowd‧ed /ˌəʊvəˈkraʊdɪd◂ $ ˌoʊvər-/ ●○○ adjective 
Staff had to work in overcrowded conditions. overcrowded housing
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- overcrowded prisons
- The buses are filthy and overcrowded.
- After a successful spawning, problems can develop due to your pond becoming overcrowded.
- And such circumstances of course, are not helped by low income and poor, overcrowded housing.
- Ideas which had already been darkly germinating in Ludens's overcrowded mind came vividly into view.
- It was as though the unwanted debris from a dozen mansions had been dumped in a single, overcrowded space.
- Officers have been guarding inmates who can not be accommodated in overcrowded jails following the riots at Strangeways jail in Manchester.
- Passengers also moaned about cancelled and overcrowded coaches and the lack of services.
- She added the planned cross town route would only be single carriageway and would rapidly become overcrowded with vehicles.
- This provided jobs and houses in new communities for people from overcrowded cities and run-down industrial areas.
Longman Language Activatorwhen a place is full of people
so full of people that it is difficult to move or find a place to sit or stand: · The train was really crowded.· a crowded elevatorcrowded with: · It was two weeks before Christmas and the mall was crowded with shoppers.
also packed out informal so full of people that there is almost no space left: · The club is so popular that it's usually packed by 9 o'clock.packed with: · St Peter's Square was packed with tourists.jam-packed (=completely full): · The football ground was absolutely jam-packed.
a place that is overcrowded has too many people in it and is unpleasant and uncomfortable: · The buses are filthy and overcrowded.· overcrowded prisons
if a place is swarming with people it is so crowded with them that it is difficult to move around - use this especially when a place is full of people you disapprove of or when you are annoyed that a place is so crowded: · The place was swarming with noisy schoolkids.
very full of people and activity: · the teeming streets of Cairoteeming with: · It was the start of the new semester, and the campus was teeming with students.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Staff had to work in overcrowded conditions.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Staff had to work in overcrowded conditions.· Families here are living in dirty, overcrowded conditions.
WORD FAMILYnouncrowdovercrowdingadjectivecrowdedovercrowdedverbcrowd
filled with too many people or things: Staff had to work in overcrowded conditions. overcrowded housing