oversubscribe
C1CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
To place orders for more of a security than is available in the offering.
The gilt auction was three times oversubscribed, forcing the syndicate to scale back allocations.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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