crowd out

English

Verb

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.
   • 2013, Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing (in The Guardian, 20 August 2013)[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.

Anagrams

• outcrowd