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overrecover

overrecover verb: to recover more money than was actually owed.

Verb

overrecover (third-person singular simple present overrecovers, present participle overrecovering, simple past and past participle overrecovered)

  1. To recover more money than was actually owed.
    • Where the estimate overstates a utility's costs, allowing the utility to overrecover its costs, the amount of the overrecovery generally is required to be returned to the ratepayers through a cost of service adjustment […]1997, Federal income tax issues arising in connection with proposals to restructure the electric power industry, page 36

Forms of overrecover

third-person singular presentoverrecovers
present participleoverrecovering
past participleoverrecovered
pastoverrecovered

Origin of overrecover

From over- + recover.

Questions about overrecover

What does overrecover mean?
Overrecover means to recover more money than was actually owed.
What part of speech is overrecover?
Overrecover is a verb.
What is the past tense of overrecover?
The past tense of overrecover is overrecovered.

Words near overrecover in the dictionary

  1. overrecompensed
  2. overrecord
  3. overrecorded
  4. overrecording
  5. overrecords
  6. overrecover
  7. overrecovered
  8. overrecoveries
  9. overrecovering
  10. overrecovers
  11. overrecovery

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