overcrowding


Also found in: Thesaurus, Wikipedia.

o·ver·crowd

 (ō′vər-kroud′)
v. o·ver·crowd·ed, o·ver·crowd·ing, o·ver·crowds
v.tr.
To cause to be excessively crowded: a system of consolidation that only overcrowded the classrooms.
v.intr.
To crowd together excessively.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

overcrowding

(ˌəʊvəˈkraʊdɪŋ)
n
a state of being filled with more people or things than is desirable; congestion
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
Translations
إكْتِظاظ، إزْدِحام
overbefolkning
túlnépesedés
òaî aî vera of òéttbÿll/mannmargur
preľudnenosť
aşırı kalabalık olma

overcrowding

[ˌəʊvəˈkraʊdɪŋ] N [of housing, prison] → hacinamiento m; [of bus, train] → abarrotamiento m; [of town] → superpoblación f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

overcrowding

[ˌəʊvərˈkraʊdɪŋ] n
(in prisons)surpeuplement m
prison overcrowding → le surpeuplement des prisons
There is serious overcrowding in our prisons → Il y a un sérieux problème de surpeuplement dans nos prisons.
(on trains)affluence f
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

overcrowding

[ˌəʊvəˈkraʊdɪŋ] n (in prison, housing) → sovraffollamento; (in bus) → calca
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

overcrowded

(əuvəˈkraudid) adjective
having too many people on or in. overcrowded buses/cities.
ˌoverˈcrowding noun
the state of being overcrowded. There is often overcrowding in cities.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

overcrowding

n hacinamiento
English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
References in classic literature ?
It braced him, and drove away his gloomy fits, whilst his sympathies were kept awake and his indignation maintained at an exhilarating pitch by the sufferings of the poor, who, unable to afford fires or skating, warmed themselves in such sweltering heat as overcrowding produces in all seasons.
Now, with this fresh influx of noblemen and cavaliers, food and lodging were scarce to be had, and the prince was hurrying forward his forces to Dax in Gascony to relieve the overcrowding of his capital.
The management of Huye district has announced plans to build new 121 classrooms in 2019/2020 to address overcrowding in schools.
The organisation said that local prisons - which tend to hold prisoners on short sentences, awaiting sentence, on remand awaiting trial or awaiting transfer to another prison category - are under the most pressure from overcrowding.
The Supreme Court has taken up a suo moto case about conditions of inmates in the country's prisons due to overcrowding. For the court's assistance, Federal Ombudsman office, has submitted through senior counsel Hafiz Ahsaan Ahmad Khokhar a report on the statistics of prisons, which may be the document needed to stir political attention towards the need to provide more funding to prisons.
SINN Fein has blasted the Health Minister for not addressing the overcrowding crisis at a hospital.
ATES of overcrowding in rented housing have hit a record high across England and Wales.
the million over Overcrowding is more than six times higher in social housing than among homeowners
Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said: "The failure to build enough social homes, combined with rising private rents and onslaught of welfare Overcrowding than six times in social among ean are cuts, has seen overcrowding sky-rocket in the last decade.
A recent report titled "Addressing Overcrowding in Prisons by Reducing Pre-Conviction Detention in Pakistan" that has been developed by the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) in collaboration with Cursor for Development and Education Pakistan (CODE) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), says Pakistan's prisons are holding up to 57% more prisoners than their authorized capacity, leading to overcrowding that has had an adverse effect on the living conditions of both detainees and staff.
Residents have repeatedly raised their concerns and according to them, overcrowding is one of the main reasons of the issue.
The percentage of overcrowding of housing in Bulgaria in urban and rural areas is very high compared to the average for the EU-28 countries.