overcrowding
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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.
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overcrowding
(ˌəʊvəˈkraʊdɪŋ)n
a state of being filled with more people or things than is desirable; congestion
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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 fCollins 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.
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
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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.
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overcrowding
n hacinamientoEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.