oversubscribe

tr.v., -scribed, -scrib·ing, -scribes.
To subscribe for (something) in excess of available supply: The opera season was oversubscribed.

oversubscription o'ver·sub·scrip'tion (-skrĭp'shən) n.

Refers to connecting more users to a system than can be fully supported if all of them were using it at the same time. Networks and servers are almost always designed with some amount of oversubscription, counting on the fact that everybody does not need the service simultaneously. If they do, delays are certainly the result, and outages may also occur.

An oversubscription of eight to one is not uncommon for Internet access, which means that only one out of eight users can be supported at sustained, maximum speed. However, with the Internet's TCP/IP packet switching architecture, all users could be online at the same time without noticing delays, because there is so much idle time while people read the Web pages they retrieve.

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - overtegne (lån etc)

Nederlands (Dutch)
meer inschrijvingen krijgen dan plaatsen/ producten

Français (French)
v. tr. - (Fin) souscrire, avoir plus d'inscriptions que de places disponibles

Deutsch (German)
v. - (eine Aktie) überzeichnen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - υπερκαλύπτω (έκδοση δανείου)

Italiano (Italian)
sottoscrivere in eccesso

Português (Portuguese)
v. - subscrever títulos além da emissão, cobrir por subscrição

Русский (Russian)
превысить число, подписка превысила

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - subscribir en exceso de la emisión

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - överteckna

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
认购超额

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 認購超額

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - (공채)모집액 이상으로 신청하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 募集額以上に申し込む

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يشارك بمبلغ أكثر من المتوفر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮התחייב להשיג יותר ממה שניתן להשגה או נדרש‬

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