• Overdevelopment

    Full definition of overdevelopment

    Noun

    overdevelopment

    (uncountable)
    1. Excessive development; the state or quality of being overdeveloped
      • 1988, October 7, Hank De Zutter and Pamela Little De Zutter, Invasion of the FIPs: boom time in southwestern Michigan, This summer eyebrows were raised when a Pizza Hut appeared right next to Redamak's in New Buffalo, one of the area's most popular family restaurants, but ...
        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 even more Chicago families spent their summers here.

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