overcrowding
English edit
Verb edit
overcrowding
- present participle and gerund of overcrowd
Noun edit
overcrowding (countable and uncountable, plural overcrowdings)
- The situation where a space holds more occupants than it can comfortably accommodate.
- 1846, Thomas Campbell Foster, Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland, page 270:
- […] there are sublettings, overcrowdings of lands, clearances, and emigrations going on; and want of employment, with consequent destitution and wretchedness is the complaint of the majority of the inhabitants.
- 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 593–594:
- 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.
- 2019 October 23, Industry Insider, “Continued rail growth”, in RAIL, page 72:
- 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.
- 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
- 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.
Translations edit
having more occupants than can be accommodated
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