overdevelopment

Excessive development; the state or quality of being overdeveloped

Noun

  1. Excessive development; the state or quality of being overdeveloped
    • […] the threat of lopsided, uncontrolled overdevelopment seems distant to many--local residents and Chicagoans alike--who regard the rediscovery of the area as a welcome return to its heyday in the 1930s and '40s, when...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English development English overdevelopment From over- + development.

Forms

overdevelopments

Related

underdevelopment