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overspending

overspending is the present participle and gerund of overspend.

Meaning of overspend

Verb

overspend (third-person singular simple present overspends, present participle overspending, simple past and past participle overspent)

  1. To spend too much money; especially, to spend more than one earns.
    • To get out of debt, first keep a budget and be careful not to overspend.
    Antonyms:
    underspend

See all 2 meanings of overspend

Noun

overspending (usually uncountable, plural overspendings)

  1. (usually) The spending of too much money.
    • Towards the very end of the year it has always been found to be impracticable to avoid overspendings, if only temporary, in some programmes and underspendings in others.1972, Great Britain. Treasury, Public Expenditure White Papers: Handbook on Methodology (page 15)

Forms of overspending

pluraloverspendings

Questions about overspending

What does overspending mean?
Overspending means the spending of too much money.
What is overspending the present participle and gerund of?
Overspending is the present participle and gerund of overspend.
What part of speech is overspending?
Overspending is a noun.
What is the plural of overspending?
The plural of overspending is overspendings.

Words near overspending in the dictionary

  1. overspelling
  2. overspells
  3. overspend
  4. overspender
  5. overspenders
  6. overspending
  7. overspendings
  8. overspenditure
  9. overspends
  10. overspent
  11. overspice

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overspending (page history and authors); overspend (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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