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overperform en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English perform English overperform From over- + perform.

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To perform better than expected, required, or predicted; to exceed a relevant standard or benchmark in performance.
    • In contrast, Haaland is overperforming by 6.83 goals since joining Dortmund, which is almost a 14-goal swing between the pair. 2021 February 4, Raj Chohan, “Erling Braut Haaland: Would Man City, Liverpool, Man Utd or Chelsea suit striker best?”, in BBC Sport:
    • ESG screened portfolios overperform the benchmark in the long term only if the exclusion threshold is low. 2024, Beatrice Bertelli, Costanza Torricelli, “The trade-off between ESG screening and portfolio diversification in the short and in the long run”, in Journal of Economics and Finance, volume 48, number 2, →DOI, pages 298–322:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
overperformed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overperformed Tense=Past lexicographic
overperforms Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
overperforming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Antonyms

underperform

Deriveds

overperformer · overperformance