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  • 11glut — ▪ I. glut glut 1 [glʌt] noun [countable usually singular] COMMERCE a supply of something that is more than is needed, caused by producing too much of it: • A world wide glut of memory chips should prevent prices from rising. • OPEC cut production …

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  • 12glut — [[t]glʌ̱t[/t]] gluts, glutting, glutted 1) N COUNT: usu sing, usu with supp If there is a glut of something, there is so much of it that it cannot all be sold or used. There s a glut of agricultural products in Western Europe. ...a world oil glut …

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  • 13full — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. filled, sated, satiated, glutted, gorged; replete; whole, complete, entire; loose, baggy; sonorous; plump, rounded; brimming. See completion, sufficiency. Ant., empty. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1.… …

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  • 14glut — 1 noun (countable usually singular) a supply of something that is more than you need (+ of): a glut of oil on the market 2 verb glutted, glutting (T) 1 be glutted with to be supplied with too much of something: The shops are glutted with oranges …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 15glut — I. verb (glutted; glutting) Etymology: Middle English glouten, probably from Anglo French glutir to swallow, from Latin gluttire more at glutton Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to fill especially with food to satiety 2. to flood (the… …

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  • 16General glut — A general glut is caused by too much production in all fields of production in comparison with what resources are available to consumption to purchase said production.The general glut problem is a problem identified within the classical political …

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  • 17glut — gluttingly, adv. /glut/, v., glutted, glutting, n. v.t. 1. to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite. 2. to feed or fill to excess; cloy. 3. to flood (the market) with a particular item or service so that the supply greatly exceeds… …

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  • 18glut — glut1 [glʌt] n [C usually singular] a supply of something, especially a product or crop, that is more than is needed ≠ ↑shortage glut of ▪ a glut of oil on the world market glut 2 glut2 past tense and past participle glutted present participle… …

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  • 19satiated — adj. filled to satiety, saturated, gratified, glutted sa·ti·ate || seɪʃɪeɪt v. fully satisfy a desire or appetite; gorge, overfill, glut, sate adj. filled to satiety, saturated, gratified, glutted …

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  • 20satiate — satiate, sate, surfeit, cloy, pall, glut, gorge are comparable when they mean to fill or become filled to the point of repletion. Although both satiate and sate can imply no more than a complete satisfying, both terms more often imply an… …

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