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Tere-arg
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Help with a word
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What does "over-capacited" mean when referring to a place?
I have not been able to find a suitable definition.
Thanks in advance.
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23 Sep 2013
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Jayho
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Do you mean over capacitated and if so is there such a word? I have never heard it used but I would assume it to mean over the designated capacity, such as at a sports stadium. But I could be wrong. |
23 Sep 2013
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monder78
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I think you mean overladen |
23 Sep 2013
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ueslteacher
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I get it, Maria, I came across it, too, once in a texbook, and it seems to me it was something like "over-capacitated nightclub". It �s from Success upper-intermediate, Pearson, Longman. Edit: For non-believers here it goes (no copyright infringement intended:) the article is called �No Place Like Home? � and it �s about moving out when going to uni: ...But then Monday comes. And there is life, you have a purpose, you �ve got hockey training, you �ve handed in an essay and you can get excited about the prospect of full five nights of flinging your limbs around in an over-capacitated nightclub....
in the urban dictionary it�s defined as "having too much capacity, oversupplied"
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23 Sep 2013
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yanogator
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I don �t think it �s a word, but it would mean filled beyond its capacity - overcrowded. Bruce |
23 Sep 2013
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Tere-arg
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That�s it, eslteacher.
That�s the book and that�s the context.
It is meant to describe a place (nightclub)
Overcrowded makes sense ...
Thanks so much to all of you 
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23 Sep 2013
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dmharg
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more provision than is needed;
ability... |
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23 Sep 2013
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