crowd out

English

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crowd out (third-person singular simple present crowds out, present participle crowding out, simple past and past participle crowded out)

  1. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To force to leave by crowding; to push out or away through strength of numbers.
    • 1956 December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 854:
      Moreover, acknowledgements got crowded out of last month's article, so that a double list has to be printed this month, and one of the longest on record.
    • 20 August 2013, Louise Taylor, “English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Gary Neville, the former Manchester United and England right-back, has acknowledged that, were he starting his career today, he would probably have found himself crowded out of the Old Trafford first-team picture by overseas imports.

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