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OVER-CROWDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does over-crowding mean? 

OVER-CROWDING (noun)
  The noun OVER-CROWDING has 1 sense:

1. excessive crowdingplay

  Familiarity information: OVER-CROWDING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OVER-CROWDING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Excessive crowding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

congestion; over-crowding

Context example:

traffic congestion

Hypernyms ("over-crowding" is a kind of...):

crowding (a situation in which people or things are crowded together)

Derivation:

overcrowd (crowd together too much)

overcrowd (cause to crowd together too much)


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