Overspeculate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Overspeculate is a verb meaning (finance) To spend too much money in speculation.
Meaning
(finance) To spend too much money in speculation.
More Meanings
- To speculate excessively.
Example Sentences
“It’s overdeveloped, overspeculated and overleveraged.”
[…] that under our present way of doing business there was a tendency to overspeculate on future advances in value; that such overspeculation always tended to produce a reaction; that there were evidences at the present time of the beginning of such a speculative fever […]
Word Forms
- overspeculates
- overspeculating
- overspeculated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include overinvest, overspend, overspecify, overfinance, overborrow, overgamble.
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