overquantity

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ quantity.

Noun

overquantity (plural overquantities)

1. An excessive quantity; surplus.
   • 1901, United States. Adjutant-General's Office, Legislative History of the General Staff of the Army of the United States (its Organization, Duties, Pay, and Allowances), from 1775 to 1901, page 287:

     […] from the peculiar circumstances attending the supplies, there is sometimes an overquantity of one article, while others are extremely scarce, […]