Definition of "oversubscribe" [oversubscribe]

• To subscribe for (something) in excess of available supply: The opera season was oversubscribed. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "On what basis can we conclude that such behavior is irrational, or that consumers "oversubscribe" to such packages?"
• "When you oversubscribe your network to get customer costs down to market, each customers “fair share” is that over subscription fraction … in our case we over subscribe a T1 30: 1 … each share is 50-64kbps … more or less."
• "I use Google Reader to oversubscribe to feeds from all over."