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overinvest

overinvest verb: to invest an excessive amount.

Verb

overinvest (third-person singular simple present overinvests, present participle overinvesting, simple past and past participle overinvested)

  1. To invest an excessive amount.
    • Amazon may have overinvested in making new kinds of hardware, like now-discontinued alarm clocks and microwaves that worked with Alexa, which sold at or below cost, the former executive said.2023 March 15, Brian X. Chen, Nico Grant, Karen Weise, “How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Antonyms:
    underinvest

Antonyms of overinvest

Forms of overinvest

third-person singular presentoverinvests
present participleoverinvesting
past participleoverinvested
pastoverinvested

Origin of overinvest

From over- + invest.

Questions about overinvest

What does overinvest mean?
Overinvest means to invest an excessive amount.
What part of speech is overinvest?
Overinvest is a verb.
What is the past tense of overinvest?
The past tense of overinvest is overinvested.

Words near overinvest in the dictionary

  1. overinterrogation
  2. overintimate
  3. overintimately
  4. overintricate
  5. overinventoried
  6. overinvest
  7. overinvested
  8. overinvestigate
  9. overinvestigated
  10. overinvestigates
  11. overinvestigating

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