English Dictionary

overcrowding

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

The situation where a space holds more occupants than it can comfortably accommodate.

日本語の意味

一定の空間に、人や物が快適な収容能力を超えて集中し、過密状態になる様子。 / 過密、混雑。

Overcrowding in the subway car made the morning commute unbearable.

地下鉄の車内が過密状態で、朝の通勤が耐え難いものになった。

意味（1）

The situation where a space holds more occupants than it can comfortably accommodate.

[…] there are sublettings, overcrowdings of lands, clearances, and emigrations going on; and want of employment, with consequent destitution and wretchedness is the complaint of the majority of the inhabitants.

overcrowdings （ plural ）