drug on the market
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.73 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
something which is overabundant at the moment and thus not in demand.
Example Sentences
- "for days and days he patrolled the town in vain; seeking for work, and finding none. The place, as his candid informer had said, was filled with clerks like himself in search of employment; and they, linguists especially, were a drug in the market — the cessation of the Franco-German War having flooded the country with foreign labour."
- "...the bread fruit, roasted in the ashes of the fire, and the custard apples, with tea, furnished forth such a luxurious feast that all fears of possible starvation vanished, while the humble cocoanut at once became a drug on the market, useful enough perhaps as a thirst-quencher but otherwise of little value."