Definition of overinvest in English:
overinvest
verbˌəʊvərɪnˈvɛstˌoʊvərɪnˈvɛst
[no object]Invest more money or resources in a project or enterprise than is necessary.
we don't want to overinvest in automation
Example sentencesExamples
- The economy adjusted to meet their demand—underinvesting in manufacturing and tradable goods and overinvesting in retail and housing.
- They should refrain from overinvesting in the doubtful securities that proliferate in this country.
- Due to bad policy we overinvested in housing and too many units got built.
- Companies have massively overinvested in capital equipment.
- We overinvested during the boom.
- Corporations, politicians, non-profits, and even individuals who overinvest in online will see the same spectacular bounce that companies saw from TV in the fifties and sixties.
- I get passionate about a particular aspect of the business and overinvest my own time in it.
- We want to protect them from overinvesting in the company.
- We can know ourselves well enough so that we don't overinvest and then sell in despair when the market gets kneecapped.
- They encourage corporations to overinvest money in their corporation rather than return it to the shareholder.
Definition of overinvest in US English:
overinvest
verbˌoʊvərɪnˈvɛstˌōvərinˈvest
[no object]Invest more money or resources in a project or enterprise than is necessary.
we don't want to overinvest in automation
Example sentencesExamples
- They encourage corporations to overinvest money in their corporation rather than return it to the shareholder.
- We overinvested during the boom.
- The economy adjusted to meet their demand—underinvesting in manufacturing and tradable goods and overinvesting in retail and housing.
- I get passionate about a particular aspect of the business and overinvest my own time in it.
- They should refrain from overinvesting in the doubtful securities that proliferate in this country.
- Corporations, politicians, non-profits, and even individuals who overinvest in online will see the same spectacular bounce that companies saw from TV in the fifties and sixties.
- Due to bad policy we overinvested in housing and too many units got built.
- We want to protect them from overinvesting in the company.
- We can know ourselves well enough so that we don't overinvest and then sell in despair when the market gets kneecapped.
- Companies have massively overinvested in capital equipment.