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Meaning of "oversubscribed" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERSUBSCRIBED

oversubscribed  [ˌəʊvəsəbˈskraɪbd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERSUBSCRIBED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Oversubscribed is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OVERSUBSCRIBED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Overselling

Overselling or overbooking is sale of a volatile good or service in excess of actual capacity. Overselling is a common practice in the travel and lodging industry. In telecommunications, sometimes the term oversubscription is preferred. The practice occurs as an intentional business strategy where sellers expect that some buyers will not consume all of the resources they are entitled to, or that some buyers will cancel, the practice of overselling ensures that 100% of available supply will be used resulting in the maximum return on investment.

Definition of oversubscribed in the English dictionary

The definition of oversubscribed in the dictionary is having more prospective buyers, clients, etc than can be supplied. Other definition of oversubscribed is having more investors wishing to buy than can be supplied.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERSUBSCRIBED


chibbed
tʃɪbd
gibbed
ɡɪbd
nibbed
nɪbd
prescribed
prɪˈskraɪbd
proscribed
prəʊˈskraɪbd
ribbed
rɪbd
rock-ribbed
ˈrɒkˌrɪbd
squibbed
skwɪbd
uncircumscribed
ʌnˈsɜːkəmˌskraɪbd
undersubscribed
ˌʌndəsəbˈskraɪbd
undescribed
ˌʌndɪˈskraɪbd
uninscribed
ˌʌnɪnˈskraɪbd
unprescribed
ˌʌnprɪˈskraɪbd
unribbed
ʌnˈrɪbd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERSUBSCRIBED

overstride
overstrike
overstrong
overstruck
overstructured
overstrung
overstudy
overstuff
overstuffed
oversubscribe
oversubscription
oversubtle
oversubtlety
oversuds
oversup
oversupplied
oversupplies
oversupply
oversure
oversuspicious

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERSUBSCRIBED

abed
absorbed
barbed
bed
disturbed
double bed
dubbed
embed
flatbed
go to bed
grabbed
hospital bed
hotbed
put to bed
robbed
rubbed
sofa bed
stabbed
subbed
well-described

Synonyms and antonyms of oversubscribed in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «oversubscribed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERSUBSCRIBED

Find out the translation of oversubscribed to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of oversubscribed from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «oversubscribed» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

超额认购
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

un exceso de solicitudes
570 millions of speakers

English

oversubscribed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

oversubscribed
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كما فاق حجم الاكتتاب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

превысил предложение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

oversubscribed
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

oversubscribed
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sursouscrite
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Terlebih langganan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

überzeichnet
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

オーバーサブスクライブ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

초과 가입
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Oversubscribed
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

oversubscribed
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அதிகம் வாங்கப்பட்டன
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ओव्हरबब्लिक झाली
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

oversubscribed
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

eccesso di richieste
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przekroczone
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

перевищив пропозицію
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

suprasubscris
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπερκαλύφθηκε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oorvolskryf
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tecknad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overtegnet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of oversubscribed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERSUBSCRIBED»

The term «oversubscribed» is regularly used and occupies the 98.965 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERSUBSCRIBED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «oversubscribed» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «oversubscribed» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about oversubscribed

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERSUBSCRIBED»

Discover the use of oversubscribed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oversubscribed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Network World
There, DSL access lines are typically aggregated onto an oversubscribed backhaul trunk into the carrier's switched/routed network.That trunk represents a potential bottleneck that could make the service crawl. "All networks are oversubscribed ...
2
CCNP(R) Practical Studies: Switching (CCNP Self-Study)
Notice that the Catalyst 4000/4500 and Catalyst 5000/5500 include oversubscribed ports, which refers to oversubscription to the switch backplane, as well as uplink ports, which are non-oversubscribed ports (i.e., they have at least a 1 Gbps ...
Justin Menga, 2003
3
The Report: Saudi Arabia 2013
... in late 2011 and 2012 are expected to contribute to increased activity in the Tadawul for the foreseeable future. Demand for new equity listings is high — all seven of the offerings made in 2012 were oversubscribed by at least two times.
Oxford Business Group
4
Dictionary of Financial Terms
Oversubscribed An initial public offering (IPO) is oversubscribed when investor demand for the shares is greater than the number of shares being issued. What typically happens is that the share price climbs, sometimes dramatically, as trading ...
Virginia B. Morris, Kenneth M. Morris, 2007
5
Parallel Computing in Quantum Chemistry
FIGURE 2.12 A two-stage, two-to-one oversubscribed fat tree network. Each stage 1 switch has four links to processing elements, but only two links to stage 2 switches. the lower stages (when k is even) since the 2k links in each of the top ...
Curtis L. Janssen, Ida M. B. Nielsen, 2008
6
Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education
As of 1997, over 50 percent of the primary students were enrolled in oversubscribed schools in Auckland and Christchurch, and about 24 percent of the students were in such schools in the slower growing Wellington area. The percentages ...
Paul E. Peterson, David E. Campbell, 2004
7
Network Processor Design: Issues and Practices
Once the lowest of the three maximum forwarding rates is found, it can be used as the arrival rate for all phases to determine whether any resources are oversubscribed at that rate; if no shared resource is oversubscribed at this rate, then that ...
Patrick Crowley, 2003
8
Network Algorithmics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to ...
Ideally, CR should only drop oversubscribed flows like F1 and let all of F2's packets through. How, though, can CR tell which flows are oversubscribed? It could do so by keeping state for all flows passing through, but that would defeat scaling.
George Varghese, 2004
9
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of ...
If the first-preference portion of a quota should be oversubscribed by qualified applicants it will be necessary to establish a waiting list for such applicants. This may be done either by the use of special sheets for first-preference applicants ...
‎1946
10
Educational Policy Evaluation through International ...
Each program was oversubscribed (i.e., there were more applicants than available vouchers) and participation was decided by lottery. In each case, both those who won a voucher (the treatment group) and those who lost in the lottery and did ...
Rolf Strietholt, Wilfried Bos, Jan-Eric Gustafsson, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERSUBSCRIBED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term oversubscribed is used in the context of the following news items.
1
China's First Public REIT Is 60% Oversubscribed by Investors
China's first public real estate investment trust received investor orders for about 1.6 times the amount of units being sold in its initial public ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
2
RaNA Therapeutics Secures $55 Million in Oversubscribed Series B …
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RaNA Therapeutics, a leader in the discovery and development of a new class of medicines that ... «Business Wire, Jul 15»
3
ComEd's Energy Efficiency Programs Are Oversubscribed, Showing …
Customers were recently told by ComEd, sorry, but we are currently oversubscribed for the year (Program Year 8 which runs June 2015-May 31 ... «Natural Resources Defense Council, Jul 15»
4
Taqa closes aggressive $3bn refi oversubscribed
Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa) has closed its $3bn refinancing, with the deal oversubscribed despite what loan officials described as “aggressive” ... «GlobalCapital, Jul 15»
5
Perimeter Medical Imaging Closes Oversubscribed $5 Million Series …
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Perimeter Medical Imaging, Inc., a developer of real time imaging systems for in-surgery tissue assessment, ... «Business Wire, Jul 15»
6
afb Ghana's listing on GSE oversubscribed by 30%
The shares of afb Ghana, consumer finance company, was oversubscribed by about 30 percent after it was officially listed on the Ghana Stock ... «GhanaWeb, Jul 15»
7
88 Energy: Oversubscribed placement to raise $12m
The Placement was strongly oversubscribed. Funds raised pursuant to the Placement will be applied to progress exploration at 88 Energy's ... «Your Project News, Jul 15»
8
Oversubscribed primary school in Macclesfield will get new …
The school was desperate for funding because it's oversubscribed and has inadequate facilities. But it has been a race against time to spend ... «Macclesfield Express, Jul 15»
9
UPDATE 1 - Goldwind's USD-300m green bond 5 times …
"Talk about proof of investor demand," the CBI commented after announcing that the bond was nearly five times oversubscribed. The issue of ... «SeeNews Renewables, Jul 15»
10
13 schools oversubscribed after first day of P1 registration under …
Tao Nan School in Marine Parade was the most sought after, with 43 registrations for only 28 places. Other schools that were oversubscribed ... «Channel News Asia, Jul 15»

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