overspill

Related topics: Geography

o·ver·spill /ˈəʊvəˌspɪl $ ˈoʊvər-/ noun [singular, uncountableU] British EnglishBrE

SGpeople who move out of a big city because there are too many people living there, and go to live in new houses outside the city 〔因城市人口过多而迁移到市外新居的〕过剩人口

an overspill of workers from London

来自伦敦的过剩的工人

Examples from the Corpus

overspill• The heart of the strong population growth lay in London itself and an overspill of about 1 million people was expected.• The 144 cells are now used as an overspill for Wormwood Scrubs.• Female speaker it will be terrible there is bound to be overspill and vandalism.• The farm itself housed twenty-five Czechoslovaks who were part of the overspill from Whittingham.

单词	overspill
释义	overspill Related topics: Geography o·ver·spill /ˈəʊvəˌspɪl $ ˈoʊvər-/ noun [singular, uncountableU] British EnglishBrE SGpeople who move out of a big city because there are too many people living there, and go to live in new houses outside the city 〔因城市人口过多而迁移到市外新居的〕过剩人口 an overspill of workers from London 来自伦敦的过剩的工人 Examples from the Corpus overspill• The heart of the strong population growth lay in London itself and an overspill of about 1 million people was expected.• The 144 cells are now used as an overspill for Wormwood Scrubs.• Female speaker it will be terrible there is bound to be overspill and vandalism.• The farm itself housed twenty-five Czechoslovaks who were part of the overspill from Whittingham.
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