overcrowding

overcrowded | American Dictionary

overcrowded
adjective
us/ˌoʊ·vərˈkrɑʊ·dɪd/
containing too many people or things:
The prisons are overcrowded.

overcrowding

noun[ U ]us/ˌoʊ·vərˈkrɑʊ·dɪŋ/
Overcrowding in classrooms is an important issue in this election.

Examples of overcrowded

overcrowded
Then as now, overcrowded conditions and poor nutrition can increase the risk of developing the illness.
There the recently arrived workers had to endure appalling conditions living in overcrowded dwellings as well as derisory wages and exploitation at their workplace.
It also distinguished the more stable owner-occupied and under-occupied 'middle ring' areas with older populations from the central areas with rented, shared and overcrowded accommodation.
Barnes in a small report gave a detailed description of the unhygienic and overcrowded conditions in which poor urban women gave birth.
The best houses in the area are well constructed, practically furnished, clean and not overcrowded.
The selective advantage of this phenomenon is that the overcrowded toads can leave a potentially lethal environment before it is too late.
They were as overcrowded and ill-equipped to manage bodies as the churchyards.
This variance may be explained by the bad economic situation, overcrowded housing, poor infrastructure and public health problems of the camps.
And, scientific evidence is increasingly valued as a means to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of overcrowded courts.
My justification for adding to the overcrowded and unruly scene is simple.
Living arrangements have become overcrowded and sometimes culturally isolated from conventional methods of social control.
They became objects of elite derision and came to personify the breakdown of morality in the city's overcrowded tenements.
Many of the poorhouses were overcrowded and could not house the elderly.
This suggests that as a search arena becomes overcrowded, random movement becomes the best strategy.
While the quality of the new recruits remains an open question, the decree certainly brought an influx of debutants into an already overcrowded trade.
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