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saturate

verb (FILL)
 
 
/ˈsæt.jʊ.reɪt/ US  /-jʊr.eɪt/

Definition

[T] to fill a thing or place completely so that no more can be added: The police saturated (= a large number of police officers were sent into) the area.Filling and completing saturate the market to provide too much of a product so that there is more of this product available than there are people who want to buy it: Since the US market has now been saturated, drug dealers are looking to Europe.Economics and the state of the economy saturation
 
 
/ˌsæt.jʊˈreɪ.ʃən/ US  /-jʊr-/ noun [U]
market saturationFull
(Definition of saturate verb (FILL) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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