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Excess Supply

Supply of a good or service well over demand. Excess supply leads to low prices for the good or service.
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excess supply

see EQUILIBRIUM MARKET PRICE.
Collins Dictionary of Business, 3rd ed. © 2002, 2005 C Pass, B Lowes, A Pendleton, L Chadwick, D O’Reilly and M Afferson
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Fig. 65 Excess supply.

excess supply

a situation in which the quantity supplied (see SUPPLY) of a product (OQ2 in Fig. 65) exceeds the quantity demanded (see DEMAND) of the product (OQ1) at the existing market price (OP). In a competitive market there will be a downward pressure on price as suppliers compete to dispose of surpluses, but where there is government intervention the situation could persist. See EQUILIBRIUM MARKET PRICE, EXCESS DEMAND, PRICE CONTROLS, PRICE SUPPORT, COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY.
Collins Dictionary of Economics, 4th ed. © C. Pass, B. Lowes, L. Davies 2005
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