Overcutting
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Excessive cutting. rare
"The first recorded export of timber was in the thirteenth century when cargoes were sent via Liibeck to England and the Low Countries. Although relatively easy to exploit, the forests were in no danger of overcutting until the industrial revolution and the decade 1860-70, when the wood converting industry expanded fivefold and government controls were removed."
- 1 present participle and gerund of overcut form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"The first recorded export of timber was in the thirteenth century when cargoes were sent via Liibeck to England and the Low Countries. Although relatively easy to exploit, the forests were in no danger of overcutting until the industrial revolution and the decade 1860-70, when the wood converting industry expanded fivefold and government controls were removed."
Etymology
From over- + cutting.
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