Word.ws English Dictionary

overbill

overbill verb: to bill an excessive amount, particularly an amount greater than one is legally entitled to.

Verb

overbill (third-person singular simple present overbills, present participle overbilling, simple past and past participle overbilled)

  1. (transitive) To bill an excessive amount, particularly an amount greater than one is legally entitled to.
    • The company was found to have systematically overbilled its customers.

Forms of overbill

third-person singular presentoverbills
present participleoverbilling
past participleoverbilled
pastoverbilled

Origin of overbill

From over- + bill.

Questions about overbill

What does overbill mean?
Overbill means to bill an excessive amount, particularly an amount greater than one is legally entitled to.
What part of speech is overbill?
Overbill is a verb.
What is the past tense of overbill?
The past tense of overbill is overbilled.

Words near overbill in the dictionary

  1. overbides
  2. overbiding
  3. overbids
  4. overbig
  5. overbigness
  6. overbill
  7. overbilled
  8. overbilling
  9. overbills
  10. overbind
  11. overbinding

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: overbill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “overbill.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/overbill. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.