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overreport

overreport verb: to report too much or too often.

Verb

overreport (third-person singular simple present overreports, present participle overreporting, simple past and past participle overreported)

  1. (transitive) To report too much or too often.
    • Just as the rising tide of cancellations leads the Census Bureau to overreport sales in the short term, it leads the government to underreport inventories.2007 January 7, Daniel Gross, “A Phantom Rebound in the Housing Market”, in New York Times

Antonyms of overreport

Forms of overreport

third-person singular presentoverreports
present participleoverreporting
past participleoverreported
pastoverreported

Origin of overreport

From over- + report.

Words formed from overreport

Questions about overreport

What does overreport mean?
Overreport means to report too much or too often.
What part of speech is overreport?
Overreport is a verb.
What is the past tense of overreport?
The past tense of overreport is overreported.

Words near overreport in the dictionary

  1. overreplicated
  2. overreplicates
  3. overreplicating
  4. overreplication
  5. overreplications
  6. overreport
  7. overreported
  8. overreporter
  9. overreporters
  10. overreporting
  11. overreports

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