overcrowded condition
collocation in Englishmeaningsofovercrowdedandcondition
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overcrowded
adjective
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈkraʊ.dɪd/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈkraʊ.dɪd/
containing too many people ...
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condition
noun
uk/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/us/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/
the particular state that something or someone ...
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Theovercrowdedconditionof some of these places is, in my opinion, sufficient to brutalise both the patients and the attendants.
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But it also tells a sadder story in wives who are denied justice and in men who are contaminated by prison, especially prisons in their presentovercrowdedcondition.
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By 1982 theovercrowdedconditionhad reversed and enrollment steadily declined until it was closed in 1997.
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Barnes in a small report gave a detailed description of the unhygienic and overcrowded conditions in which poor urban women gave birth.
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There was also a very significant positive association between increasing referral rates for the psychoses and an increase in overcrowded conditions.
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Sizable outbreaks of these diseases are usually connected with war, natural disasters or famine, when impoverished, overcrowded conditions of life contribute to the multiplication of the insect vectors.
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Availability of large, relatively affordable houses allows families, to some extent, to live together, albeit in overcrowded conditions, with other relatives and friends living in the same area.
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It is unacceptable that families in overcrowded conditions have to resort to, for example, converting airing cupboards into bedrooms.
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It is the responsibility of each of us to make certain that these slums and overcrowded conditions are wiped out at the earliest moment.
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And this at a time when so many of our fellow countrymen are living in slums or otherwise in overcrowded conditions.
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That means that 30,000 to 35,000 people are waiting for a home, and some of them will be living in desperately overcrowded conditions.
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I am living in rotten conditions, or overcrowded conditions.
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We have an enormous number of people living uncomfortably with their parents or their parents-in-law and living in overcrowded conditions.
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One hears cases in the county courts of scandalous over-crowding, and one knows criminal cases which have undoubtedly arisen from those overcrowded conditions.
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To do otherwise would cause overcrowded conditions, would affect teaching and the children's ability to learn and would benefit no one.
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He must be aware that large numbers of immigrant families live in very bad overcrowded conditions of multiple occupation.
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The trouble is that many people find even these high rents acceptable because they are able to share accommodation, often in overcrowded conditions.
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Children cannot make full use of education in overcrowded conditions.
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How is it, then, that the housing lists are still so large and that overcrowded conditions still prevail?
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