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overdeliver en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + deliver.

Meanings

  1. To deliver in excess of a norm, standard, or requirement.
    • “He’s wise not to overpromise, but to underpromise and overdeliver,” said Dave Checketts, a former president of the Knicks and then Madison Square Garden who left in 2001 after a power struggle with James L. Dolan, the chairman of the Garden. 2008 April 4, Richard Sandomir, “Fixing a Broken Dream One Night at a Time”, in The New York Times:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
overdelivers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
overdelivered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overdelivered Tense=Past lexicographic
overdelivering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

underpromise and overdeliver