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overplace

overplace verb: to place too high in a ranking.

Verb

overplace (third-person singular simple present overplaces, present participle overplacing, simple past and past participle overplaced)

  1. (transitive) To place too high in a ranking.
    • On average subjects overplace themselves by 0.44 ranks.2016 January 26, “Overconfidence and Career Choice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of overplace

third-person singular presentoverplaces
present participleoverplacing
past participleoverplaced
pastoverplaced

Origin of overplace

From over- + place.

Questions about overplace

What does overplace mean?
Overplace means to place too high in a ranking.
What part of speech is overplace?
Overplace is a verb.
What is the past tense of overplace?
The past tense of overplace is overplaced.

Words near overplace in the dictionary

  1. overpious
  2. overpitch
  3. overpitched
  4. overpitches
  5. overpitching
  6. overplace
  7. overplaced
  8. overplacement
  9. overplacements
  10. overplaces
  11. overplacing

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