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- noun Plural form of
oversupply . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
oversupply .
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Examples
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But right now oil is suffering from the global slowdown and oversupplies of fuel.
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Such overinvestment, as well as unduly tight monetary and fiscal policy, is how chip cycles end, suggesting there is still a long way to go for patient investors able to look through the media hubbub and focus on the numbers, not the chatter about looming oversupplies.
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There are no permanent shortages (or oversupplies).
Managing Your Portfolio: One Father's Advice Arthur Zeikel 2010
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Our toxic, nutrient-poor “dietary” environment undersupplies the raw materials for proper biochemical and metabolic functioning, namely nutrients, and oversupplies a load of chemicals, additives, pollutants, and allergens.
The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009
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Economic slowdowns caused temporary oversupplies of finished goods, causing factories to be idled and factory workers to be furloughed.
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Chesapeake Energy Corp. is continuing to increase its production of natural-gas, despite low prices and growing oversupplies.
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Chesapeake cited the financial crisis, falling gas prices and worries about oversupplies as the impetus for renegotiating some of its drilling lease-purchase agreements with an aim toward reducing the purchase price.
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Some fear weaker global economic growth could eat into demand, leading to oversupplies.
OPEC's Freeze Keeps 2007
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The rationale: Industry observers aren't convinced that the chip business can avoid oversupplies, which helped push manufacturing-equipment spending down 11% last year, according to research shop Gartner.
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There were pricing wars, trends, oversupplies, shortages, even heists and embargos, basically everything a reactive economy could have.
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