overspeculate en · VERB
Etymology
From over- + speculate.
Meanings
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To spend too much money in speculation.
[…] 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 […]
1910 February 26, Collier's, volume 44, page 10:“It’s overdeveloped, overspeculated and overleveraged.”
2009 August 8, Paul Sullivan, “There’s Value in Real Estate, if You Find Your Florida”, in New York Times:
- To speculate excessively.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| overspeculates | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| overspeculated | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overspeculated | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| overspeculating | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |