Usually means: Population growth exceeds resource availability.
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  1. Malthusian: Merriam-Webster
  2. Malthusian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Malthusian: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Malthusian: Vocabulary.com
  5. Malthusian: Wordnik
  6. Malthusian: Wiktionary
  7. Malthusian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Malthusian: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Malthusian: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Malthusian, malthusian: Dictionary.com
  11. Malthusian: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Malthusian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Malthusian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. malthusian: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Malthusian: Rhymezone
  16. Malthusian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. malthusian: FreeDictionary.org
  18. malthusian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Malthusian: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Malthusian: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. Malthusian: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Malthusian: Encyclopedia

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  1. Malthusian: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. Political (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Malthusian: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL

(Note: See malthusianism as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Malthusian)

adjective:  Of, or relating to Thomas Malthus (1766–1834) or his views on human population and world resources.
noun:  A supporter of the ideas of Thomas Malthus.

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