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