The word "oversize" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used as an adjective to describe something that is larger than normal or the usual size. For example: "The t-shirt I bought is slightly oversize, so I need to get it altered."
Flanked by two burly jihadists, Bilardi's pale, skinny arms hold on to an oversize Kalashnikov.
The next chapter in Georgia's history may be about neither him nor Mr Ivanishvili and, after the duel of their oversize egos, that would be no bad thing.
City officials had cancelled the main fireworks-and-laser-light countdown on the Bund one week earlier out of concern about oversize crowds.
An oversize poster for a silent movie about Jesse James epitomises the popular tales of ex-Confederates who re-emerged as outlaw gunfighters.
On the wall behind him hangs an oversize portrait of Michel Nielly, who a half-century ago established it as a beachhead for the Dominican order.
She steals the film in the scene of the project's launch in the Yemen with a headscarf, oversize sunglasses and a cigarette, she ushers the unwilling deputy prime minister into the water in his waders, mutters sarcastic asides and then beams at the line of journalists, relishing the thought of tomorrow's front-page news.
In the event, the oversize load that caused the span to collapse caught a cross-member of the bridge's lower-than-normal superstructure.
Their ten-year yields have jumped beyond 7% and, once euro-zone yields reach these levels, they tend to spiral out of control.For some this proves that Italy is an oversize Greece: a country with a debt burden that is too heavy for it to bear and, unlike Greece, for others to help shoulder.
That kind of rhetoric implies a more punitive approach to the problem of oversize banks than might be suggested by narrow metrics such as market share.The commission is still mulling over most of the bank-restructuring plans that have been submitted to it since April, but the few decisions it has made suggest its mercies will be anything but tender.
The handouts distorted the shipbuilding industry, resulting in an oversize fishing fleet and a misallocation of resources.In this section Bailing out from Bali Practice makes imperfect Sharing the pain Exam nerves Going with the flow Time for thrift Tilted marine ReprintsFar from avoiding the distortion Smith spotted, governments have been keen to nurture it.
WHEN a species evolves traits that seem to have little to do with individual survival bright colours, say, or oversize horns, it is typically the male alone who sports these excesses.
