oversubscription
- a word derived from oversubscribe.
Example Sentences
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After decades of fighting over the meager trickles of the Jordan River and the oversubscription of a pipeline from the Sea of Galilee, Israel went back to the drawing board on its irrigated crops.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2022
“Once we became clear that we did have more oversubscription to the program than there was, we figured out a solution to it.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
The retail oversubscription rate was 5.12 times, which analysts said was also low for a Hong Kong IPO.
From Reuters ● Dec. 30, 2021
"This way the problems of oversubscription and resulting admissions criteria would be greatly reduced."
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2013
The oversubscription exceeded that which the first loan yielded.
