Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To subscribe for (something) in excess of available supply: The opera season was oversubscribed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To subscribe to an extent that is greater than the availability
Etymologies
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Examples
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On what basis can we conclude that such behavior is irrational, or that consumers "oversubscribe" to such packages?
Neuroeconomics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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When you oversubscribe your network to get customer costs down to market, each customers “fair share” is that over subscription fraction … in our case we over subscribe a T1 30: 1 … each share is 50-64kbps … more or less.
Updated: Time Warner Cable Backs Off Metered Broadband Everywhere
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And, as we ` ve seen time and time again, doctors are more than happy to oversubscribe addicts medication.
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RSS readers encourage you to oversubscribe to news.
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Consumers appear to oversubscribe to flat-rate payment plans, for utilities and telephone service and health clubs...
Neuroeconomics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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I use Google Reader to oversubscribe to feeds from all over.
Convert iGoogle Feeds To Google Reader Subscriptions | Lifehacker Australia
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I see the French Canadians giving their money, without grumbling: they pay the taxes, they oversubscribe the Victory Loans, they give to the various drives, such as the Red Cross and the Russian Fund.
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Gates County, which had subscribed only 7 per cent of its allotment in June, and spent two weeks helping the local committee perfect a working organization, put on a follow-up drive, and had the satisfaction of seeing Gates oversubscribe its allotment by 15 per cent.
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"The strength of the digital cinema business model attracted lenders to oversubscribe the transaction in a challenging market."
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And if you do a 2: 1 oversubscribe ratio, you can lash together 30,720 servers at Gigabit speeds.
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