excess demand

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noun

economics a situation in which the market demand for a commodity is greater than its market supply, thus causing its market price to rise

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How to use excess demand in a sentence

Then he made an excess demand on the motor muscles of his legs, and in six wild leaps he had gained the goat's side.
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