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overguarantee

overguarantee verb: to guarantee excessively.

Verb

overguarantee (third-person singular simple present overguarantees, present participle overguaranteeing, simple past and past participle overguaranteed)

  1. To guarantee excessively.
    • This precautionary practice may result in a grave situation of overguaranteeing. Suretyship contracts or equivalent personal guarantees and real security are naturally frequent in banking practice.2009, Teresa Rodriguez de las Heras Ballell, Introduction to Spanish Private Law, page 207

Forms of overguarantee

third-person singular presentoverguarantees
present participleoverguaranteeing
past participleoverguaranteed
pastoverguaranteed

Origin of overguarantee

From over- + guarantee.

Questions about overguarantee

What does overguarantee mean?
Overguarantee means to guarantee excessively.
What part of speech is overguarantee?
Overguarantee is a verb.
What is the past tense of overguarantee?
The past tense of overguarantee is overguaranteed.

Words near overguarantee in the dictionary

  1. overgrown
  2. overgrownness
  3. overgrows
  4. overgrowth
  5. overgrowths
  6. overguarantee
  7. overguaranteed
  8. overguaranteeing
  9. overguarantees
  10. overguesstimate
  11. overguesstimated

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