verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
supply outstrips/exceeds demand (= more is available than people need or want )
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In the 1980s, the supply of grain far exceeded the demand.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
far
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But the problems and discontent of today far outstrip the grumblings heard in 1964.
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Where nutrients are plentiful, productivity is high, production far outstrips decomposition, and organic sediments accumulate on the lake beds.
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This reduction, however, is likely to be far outstripped by the increasing output of carbon dioxide.
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This growth far outstripped the provision of facilities.
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Our technical ability to make things and to pollute now far outstrips our ability to understand the processes we have unleashed.
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The value of the investments and exports it backs far outstrips Britain's annual aid budget.
■ NOUN
demand
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However, with a higher age structure, compared with the national average, demand continues to outstrip supply.
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Ciba-Geigy curtailed its Program advertising last year, when demand outstripped supplies.
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If the demand for energy outstrips the supply, we use up the fat and become slimmer.
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In practice demand invariably outstrips supply, obliging librarians to make decisions upon priorities.
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Therefore, with demand outstripping supply for new aircraft production, existing in-service aircraft are replaced more slowly.
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They are able to do so because demand is greatly outstripping supply.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Demand for energy is outstripping the supply.
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Even the most primitive computer can outstrip the human brain in certain types of calculation.
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Girls are now outstripping boys in all school subjects.
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The new magazine's circulation of 210,000 outstrips that of all of its closest competitors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After Henry had outstripped him in celebrity, he grew riotous.
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But the problems and discontent of today far outstrip the grumblings heard in 1964.
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Had they succeeded for the first time in outstripping the rumours of their coming?
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He soon ceased trying new ideas, already outstripped by others far more inventive than he.
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Our technical ability to make things and to pollute now far outstrips our ability to understand the processes we have unleashed.
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Shalala outstripped her Cabinet colleagues for implementing existing programs and public policy.
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The costs, which were not adjusted for inflation, outstripped median household incomes over the same period by 152 percentage points.
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The result was a substantial rise in yields and an increase in output that outstripped the rise in population.