glut

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  1. transitive verb To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; satiate.
  2. transitive verb To flood (a market) with an excess of goods so that supply exceeds demand.
  3. intransitive verb To eat or indulge in something excessively.
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  • Bay Ridge Food Co-op: In hopes of filling Bay Ridge's grocery glut, a group of local foodies are trying to plant the seeds for the neighborhood's first ever food coop. —  The Brooklyn Paper: Full articles
  • The best way to address the glut is to identify new uses for wool, to stimulate demand. —  Hooting Yard
  • But the end result of this year's particularly crowded quality-movie glut is a situation in which most of America hasn't seen the films that we're being told are so wonderful.
  • Prices of the benchmark NAND flash memory have slumped 51 percent this year because of a glut, according to Dramexchange Technology Inc., operator of Asia's biggest spot market for chips. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Better technology has contributed to the glut, allowing blueberry farmers to nearly double production, from about 3,000 pounds an acre to nearly 6,000 pounds an acre.
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glut:   gluts ·  glutting ·  glutted
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  1. Middle English glotten, probably from Old French glotoiier, to eat greedily, from Latin gluttīre.

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  1. from Middle English gloten, glotten, from Old French glotir, gloutir, from Latin glutire, gluttire, swallow, gulp down.
  2. In def. 2, from Middle English glut, from Old French glut, glot, glout = Provencal glot = Old Italian ghiotto, a glutton; Old French and Italian also adjective, gluttonous; from the verb.
 

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