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overorder

overorder verb: to order too much or too many.

Verb

overorder (third-person singular simple present overorders, present participle overordering, simple past and past participle overordered)

  1. (ambitransitive) To order too much or too many.
    • Having overordered the unpopular new toys, we were forced to sell them at a discount.

Noun

overorder (plural overorders)

  1. An order for too much or too many.
  2. A ring for which a specified subring R contains no nonempty socles and for which any R-module is of finite length.

Forms of overorder

Verb
third-person singular presentoverorders
present participleoverordering
past participleoverordered
pastoverordered
Noun
pluraloverorders

Origin of overorder

From over- + order.

Questions about overorder

What does overorder mean?
Overorder means to order too much or too many.
What part of speech is overorder?
Overorder can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of overorder?
The past tense of overorder is overordered.

Words near overorder in the dictionary

  1. overoptimizing
  2. overorchestrate
  3. overorchestrated
  4. overorchestrates
  5. overorchestrating
  6. overorder
  7. overordered
  8. overordering
  9. overorders
  10. overorganisation
  11. overorganization

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