oversubscribe
oversubscribe Lexical Profile
oversubscribe Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To apply for, order, or subscribe to in excess of the available supply or capacity (typically used in the passive voice of a stock issue, course, or event).
"The company's initial public offering was heavily oversubscribed by institutional investors."
To allocate more virtual resources, bandwidth, or user accounts to a computing system or network than its physical capacity can simultaneously support, relying on the assumption that not all users will demand peak capacity at the same time.
"Cloud providers routinely oversubscribe server memory to maximize hardware efficiency across virtual machines."
Word Nuance & Usage
'Oversubscribe' is almost exclusively used in the passive voice ('be oversubscribed') to describe a stock issue, event, or course that has received more applications or orders than can be accommodated.