Definitions
State where a place has too many people or things in it.
Used in a sentence
“[…] 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.”
“An extra rush-hour train has eased overcrowding of the former 5.39 p.m. to Salisbury; this now leaves at 5.43 and an additional electric service to Alton departs at 5.39 p.m.”
“Department for Transport statistics show that since 2010 overcrowding in the morning peak at 11 cities has risen by 48%, to reach 280,000 standing passengers daily.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Excess occupancy”12 letters
02“Too many inside”12 letters
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