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overcrowdings

overcrowdings is the plural of overcrowding.

Meaning of overcrowding

Noun

overcrowding (countable and uncountable, plural overcrowdings)

  1. The situation where a space holds more occupants than it can comfortably accommodate.
    • […] 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.1846, Thomas Campbell Foster, Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland, page 270

Questions about overcrowdings

What is overcrowdings the plural of?
Overcrowdings is the plural of overcrowding.

Words near overcrowdings in the dictionary

  1. overcrowdedly
  2. overcrowdedness
  3. overcrowder
  4. overcrowders
  5. overcrowding
  6. overcrowdings
  7. overcrowds
  8. overcrowed
  9. overcrowing
  10. overcrows
  11. overcruel

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