oversupplynoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˌəʊ.və.səˈplaɪ/us/ˌoʊ.vɚ.səˈplaɪ/a greater supply of something than is needed:
The coffee market is suffering from oversupply.
We have an oversupply of unsold cars in the showroom.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Too much and unnecessary
- a sledgehammer to crack a nut idiom
- avalanche
- be up to your neck (in sth) idiom
- bellyful
- binge
- carry/take coals to Newcastle idiom
- hyper
- immoderate
- inessential
- insatiable
- lousy
- plenty
- plethora
- proliferate
- redundancy
- redundant
- sock
- supplementary
- surplus
- weigh
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