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overfinance

overfinance verb: to finance too much.

Verb

overfinance (third-person singular simple present overfinances, present participle overfinancing, simple past and past participle overfinanced)

  1. (transitive) To finance too much.
    • Daniel Halperin implies that we are overfinancing AIDS and underfinancing other key health and development priorities.2008 January 7, “When Illnesses Vie for Our Dollars”, in New York Times

Forms of overfinance

third-person singular presentoverfinances
present participleoverfinancing
past participleoverfinanced
pastoverfinanced

Origin of overfinance

From over- + finance.

Questions about overfinance

What does overfinance mean?
Overfinance means to finance too much.
What part of speech is overfinance?
Overfinance is a verb.
What is the past tense of overfinance?
The past tense of overfinance is overfinanced.

Words near overfinance in the dictionary

  1. overfilter
  2. overfiltered
  3. overfiltering
  4. overfilters
  5. overfiltration
  6. overfinance
  7. overfinanced
  8. overfinances
  9. overfinancing
  10. overfine
  11. overfinely

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