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Example sentences for "oversupply"

Lexicographically close words:
overstrain; overstrained; overstraining; overstrung; overstuffed; overswept; overt; overtake; overtaken; overtakes
  1. Regardless of the scarcity or oversupply of labor, personal efficiency will tend to enable the worker to receive larger wages than would otherwise be possible.

  2. Low wages are generally the result of low productivity, and low productivity is in turn the result of an oversupply of laborers relatively to the demand.

  3. It is contended, therefore, that an oversupply of unskilled immigrant labor in this country has had at least two injurious results.

  4. There is no danger of an oversupply of well-equipped teachers, who are masters of the message of Christ.

  5. An oversupply of food calls for more food or alcohol.

  6. Dull eyes and a greenish tinge of the whites of the eyes point toward digestive disturbances due to an oversupply of food.

  7. Nor, on the other hand, would there be any serious danger that the wage rates set for any industry or occupation would be so high as to add to any already existing possibilities of oversupply of certain types of labor.

  8. Which objection is that all attempts at revision of existing wage differentials would involve a risk of producing, on the one hand, a shortage of certain kinds of labor, and, on the other hand, an oversupply of other kinds.

  9. The same thing may be said of acid foods; that is, an oversupply of these is just as distasteful as too many bland foods.

  10. To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

  11. A general oversupply or excess of all commodities.

  12. Mas is surprised at the lack of religious in the islands, while in Spain there is an oversupply and the livings are much poorer than in the Philippines.

  13. When, however, it has disappeared, there can be no oversupply of “free laborers.

  14. Everywhere places are waiting for the right man, while at the same time we find everywhere an oversupply of mediocre aspirants.

  15. When any of the dry vegetables high in protein are served at a meal, meat should be eliminated, or the result will be an oversupply of protein.

  16. The making of cheese was known in ancient times, it having probably originated through a desire to utilize an oversupply of milk.

  17. From the employee's standpoint it was most desirable that the number of apprentices be kept down, as an oversupply of labor almost invariably resulted in a lowering of wages.

  18. This condition will never be agreeable to him unless he has an oversupply of brute instincts.

  19. With an oversupply of tobacco in the warehouses, English and Scots merchants limited further credit extensions and called for repayment of long-outstanding loans.

  20. On the other hand, the clergy and others protested they received no relief when tobacco was in oversupply and the price was low.

  21. We have already alluded to the great oversupply of teachers of schools.

  22. To the enormous oversupply of school-teachers, it is due that one of the most honourable of callings is at the same time one of the most ill-paid.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oversupply" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abundance; avalanche; balance; bonus; deluge; dividend; embarrassment; engulf; excess; extra; extravagance; flood; glut; gratuity; inundate; inundation; landslide; lavishness; leftover; load; margin; much; overabundance; overdose; overplus; overpopulation; overrun; overset; oversupply; overwhelm; plenty; plethora; plus; prodigality; profusion; redundancy; remainder; spare; spate; superabundance; superfluity; surfeit; surplus; swamp; tip; whelm