oversubscribe (English, verb)
expansion: oversubscribe (third-person singular simple present oversubscribes, present participle oversubscribing, simple past and past participle oversubscribed)
Senses:
glosses: To subscribe to an extent that is greater than the availability.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To subscribe to an extent that is greater than the availability.
To attempt to buy more shares than there are available.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To use the oversubscription technique in multithreading.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To use the oversubscription technique in a computer network.
Forms:
form: oversubscribes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oversubscribing
tags: participle
present
form: oversubscribed
tags: participle
past
form: oversubscribed
tags: past