Overcrowding
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Overcrowding is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of overcrowd.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of overcrowd.
More Meanings
- The situation where a space holds more occupants than it can comfortably accommodate.
Example Sentences
Department for Transport statistics show that since 2010 overcrowding in the morning peak at 11 cities has risen by 48%, to reach 280,000 standing passengers daily.
Climbers have warned of overcrowding on K2 — the world’s second highest mountain and one of its deadliest — after a sherpa took video of queues snaking towards the summit.
An extra rush-hour train has eased overcrowding of the former 5.39 p.m. to Salisbury; this now leaves at 5.43 and an additional electric service to Alton departs at 5.39 p.m.
Stops at Fareham, Havant and Chichester add to the cattle-like conditions aboard, although as the door nearest me is blocked by prams and suitcases, my coach is protected from the worst overcrowding.
Word Forms
- overcrowdings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include crowdedness, crowded, congested, crowding, overpopulation, overpopulated.
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