excess production

collocation in English

meaningsofexcessandproduction

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excess
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈek.ses/us
/ˈek.ses/
extra:
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production
noun
uk
/prəˈdʌk.ʃən/us
/prəˈdʌk.ʃən/
the process of making or growing goods to ...
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(Definition ofexcessandproductionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexcess production

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The number of firm closures will depend onexcessproductionin the industry.
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A significant acreage reduction ensured that the marketing quotas, and their attendant penalties forexcessproduction, were not invoked during 1939 and 1940.
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Agents that interfere specifically with proliferation are probably not the ones most likely to reduce the numbers of neurons with this pattern ofexcessproductionfollowed by cell death.
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I believe they could make a major contribution to tacklingexcessproductionand expenditure.
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The problem then was to find the transport and the markets for the coal which we had inexcessproduction.
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However, it is quite wrong for us unnecessarily to dump ourexcessproductionon other countries.
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Certainly the idea that this country should maintain its position as the dumping-ground for the world'sexcessproductionis not going to help us.
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This included the introduction of a quota-supplementary levy scheme in the milk sector, with the aim of curbingexcessproductionin that sector.
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The allowance of fuel for their production will be fixed so as reasonably to preventexcessproduction.
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What has caused this glut, thisexcessproduction?
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The only sustainable agricultural policy is one that identifies and counteracts the power behind the agrarian scissors—excessproductionand the payments associated with it.
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Although these policies transfer government funds to agricultural producers, they do not encourageexcessproduction.
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Will he acknowledge that price freezes would still leave an open-ended commitment to pay forexcessproduction?
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If this is a trend that we are in, obviously the prospect looks rosier for the industry than an up-turn inexcessproduction.
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An increase of this amount should not stimulate furtherexcessproduction.
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Any large increase would involve the risk of stimulating furtherexcessproductionwhich could only bring harm to the industry.
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It has been decided that there is to be a guarantee, and that that is not to be limited toexcessproduction.
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It imposes little effective restraint onexcessproductionand does nothing to reduce the cost of disposing of the surpluses.
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The writers of these letters are critical that we are having to give away the results ofexcessproduction.
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An increase in this amount should not stimulate furtherexcessproduction, but any greater increase would involve this risk.
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