overspeculate
overspeculate verb: to spend too much money in speculation.
Verb
overspeculate (third-person singular simple present overspeculates, present participle overspeculating, simple past and past participle overspeculated)
- To spend too much money in speculation.
- […] that under our present way of doing business there was a tendency to overspeculate on future advances in value; that such overspeculation always tended to produce a reaction; that there were evidences at the present time of the beginning of such a speculative fever […]1910 February 26, Collier's, volume 44, page 10
- “It’s overdeveloped, overspeculated and overleveraged.”2009 August 8, Paul Sullivan, “There’s Value in Real Estate, if You Find Your Florida”, in New York Times
- To speculate excessively.
Forms of overspeculate
| third-person singular present | overspeculates |
|---|---|
| present participle | overspeculating |
| past participle | overspeculated |
| past | overspeculated |
Origin of overspeculate
From over- + speculate.
Questions about overspeculate
- What does overspeculate mean?
- Overspeculate means to spend too much money in speculation.
- What part of speech is overspeculate?
- Overspeculate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of overspeculate?
- The past tense of overspeculate is overspeculated.
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