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overfund

overfund verb: to supply with more funds than necessary or appropriate.

Verb

overfund (third-person singular simple present overfunds, present participle overfunding, simple past and past participle overfunded)

  1. To supply with more funds than necessary or appropriate
    • But it is not likely to contain contributions from G.M.’s pension plan, even though the plan is overfunded, they added.2007 September 22, Micheline Maynard, “Accord on One Key Issue Is Reported in G.M. Talks”, in New York Times

Forms of overfund

third-person singular presentoverfunds
present participleoverfunding
past participleoverfunded
pastoverfunded

Origin of overfund

From over- + fund.

Questions about overfund

What does overfund mean?
Overfund means to supply with more funds than necessary or appropriate.
What part of speech is overfund?
Overfund is a verb.
What is the past tense of overfund?
The past tense of overfund is overfunded.

Words near overfund in the dictionary

  1. overfunctioners
  2. overfunctioning
  3. overfunctions
  4. overfunctor
  5. overfunctors
  6. overfund
  7. overfunded
  8. overfundedness
  9. overfunding
  10. overfundings
  11. overfunds

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