0 If something is oversubscribed, people still want to buy things, especially shares or tickets, although all of them are already sold:
1 if a share issue (= occasion on which new shares are sold) is oversubscribed, people want to buy more shares than are available:
2 a situation in which people want to buy or have many more things, such as tickets, than are available:
The school has an excellent reputation and is heavily oversubscribed.
Little wonder that new offers were heavily oversubscribed.
On the other hand, the large-scale facilities tend to be oversubscribed and strongly peer reviewed.
The competition for contracts under the non-fossil fuel obligation is heavily oversubscribed.
Even some who actually live right next door to a brand new school do so, because brand new schools are often oversubscribed from the start.
If the issue is oversubscribed, preference will certainly be given to the small investor, as in all previous privatisation issues.
The programme is oversubscribed four times and is constrained in the budget guidelines where it is a priority.
Such reasons are, quite properly, only of relevance if the school in question is oversubscribed.
I have received representations about children who have not been admitted to the school of their parents' choice because the school is oversubscribed.
