单词 | oversold |
释义 | oversoldadj. 1. Sold in excess of the available supply; promoted with too much enthusiasm, overhyped. ΚΠ 1870 Putnam's Mag. Mar. 299/1 He cares nothing about..net earnings, or how 67's were in sharp demand to cover shorts, nor how Northwestern preferred is oversold. 1921 Times 26 Feb. 19/7 Mills were so oversold that orders booked for delivery many months before were still unfilled. 1977 National Jrnl. (U.S.) (Nexis) 18 June 949 The federal regional councils suffer from high expectations. They were oversold and underpowered. 2002 Consumer Rep. Trav. Let. (Nexis) 18 6 Always book seats when buying tickets, if possible. If you can't book seats, you may be on an oversold flight. 2. Of a stock market, etc.: that has fallen too quickly as a result of excessive selling; (also) characteristic of such a market. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > sold > in specific manner retailed1611 short1849 underpriced1861 oversold1879 mass-marketed1960 off-farm1962 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > [adjective] > represented imperfectly garbleda1757 misrepresented1796 oversold1879 misdescribed1891 skewed1935 1879–90 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. at Oversell Oversold market, a market in which stocks have been sold ‘short’ to such an extent that..it is difficult to obtain them for delivery. 1881 Daily News 14 Sept. 4/6 He secured nearly 500,000 bales, or, in fact, considerably more cotton than was actually in existence, the market thus being what is termed ‘oversold’. 1921 Times 17 Jan. 15/6 Later, however, oversold conditions made themselves felt, and assisted by some export buying the market rallied for a time. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 5 Apr. 27/1 Word of this amendment..caught the wheat market in apparently an oversold condition. 2002 Irish Times (Nexis) 25 Oct. 57 The recent share price gains would seem to be mainly a recovery from a very oversold position. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1870 |
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