1. overcrowding - Noun
2. overcrowding - Verb
overcrowding
present participle of overcrowd
overcrowding (countable and uncountable, plural overcrowdings)
The situation where a space holds more occupants than it can comfortably accommodate.
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War. Michael Badnarik
What we have to do is to doom the slums. And we have done it. It is going to take a year or two. We are not only going to doom slums, we are going to doom overcrowding. Next Session the House of Commons will...pass legislation which is going to doom overcrowding as we have already doomed the slums. Ramsay MacDonald
I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early. Scott Westerfeld
Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. Scott Westerfeld
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids. P. J. O'Rourke
“2020 should be a year where understaffing and overcrowding are brought under control, but that simply won’t happen without investment and an end to the recruitment ban.” Source: Internet