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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A supply in excess of what is appropriate or required.
  • transitive verb To supply in excess of what is appropriate or required.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A supply in excess of demand.
  • To supply in excess of demand.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To supply in excess.
  • noun An excessive supply; a supply in excess of demand.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To supply more than is needed

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
  • verb supply with an excess of

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From over- +‎ supply.

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