excess capacity
Room to grow
Excess capacity is the gap between what a system could produce and what it actually produces.
A factory with excess capacity has machines sitting idle.
Airlines maintain excess capacity to handle holiday surges.
Economists debate whether excess capacity signals inefficiency or prudent reserve: The industry is plagued by excess capacity and falling prices.
- surplusAmount exceeding requirement
- idleWithout activity or purpose
- slackAbsence of tautness
- underutilizedInsufficiently put to work
- overcapacityBeyond maximum capacity
sitting idle · redundant · spare · buffer · inventory · warehouse · empty · dormant · mothballed · oversupply · glut · supply chain · inefficiency · dead weight · downtime · shutdown · plant closure · layoffs
excess capacitymaximum capacity
Upper limit of containment
capacity utilization · at capacity · stretched thin · maxed out
excess capacityscarcity
Insufficiency of something needed
shortfall · shortage · bottleneck · undersupply · supply shortage
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