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OVERSPEND

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: overspent   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spend at a high rate

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "overspend" is one way to...):

consume; squander; ware; waste (spend extravagantly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

underspend (spend at less than the normal rate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spend more than available of (a budget)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "overspend" is one way to...):

spend (spend completely)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

underspend (spend less than the whole of (a budget, for example))

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