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say it: oh-vur-suh-PLAHY
oversupply is a noun and verb meaning "the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
supply with an excess of
“flood the market with tennis shoes”
“Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for oversupply come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.