glut
pronunciation
How to pronounce glut in British English:
UK [glʌt]
How to pronounce glut in American English:
US [ɡlʌt]
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- Noun:
- the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
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- Verb:
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- supply with an excess of
Word Origin
- glut (v.)
- early 14c., glotien "to feed to repletion" (transitive), probably from Old French glotir "to swallow, gulp down, engulf," from Latin glutire/gluttire "to swallow, gulp down," from PIE root *gwele- (3) "to swallow" (see gullet). Intransitive sense "feed (oneself) to repletion" is from c. 1400. Related: Glutted; glutting.
- glut (n.)
- 1530s, "a gulp, a swallowing," from glut (v.). Meaning "condition of being full or sated" is 1570s; mercantile sense "superabundance, oversupply of a commodity on the market" first recorded 1590s.
Example
- 1. The glut of shipping capacity has forced down rates .
- 2. The reasons for the supply glut vary widely by market .
- 3. So even if the edge is coming off demand , there may not be a supply glut .
- 4. But a new glut meant sony was paying more to buy screens from its own venture than on the open market .
- 5. As china 's economy and its demand for electricity both grow , today 's glut will eventually disappear .