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overinvests

overinvests is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overinvest.

Meaning of overinvest

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

Questions about overinvests

What is overinvests the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overinvests is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overinvest.

Words near overinvests in the dictionary

  1. overinvesting
  2. overinvestment
  3. overinvestments
  4. overinvestor
  5. overinvestors
  6. overinvests
  7. overinvoice
  8. overinvolved
  9. overinvolvement
  10. overinvolvements
  11. overiodisation

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