oversell
/əʊvəˈsɛl
/verb (past and past participle oversold) [with object]
1Sell more of (something) than exists or can be delivered: he defrauded investors by deliberately overselling time shares...
- More often than not, the airline has oversold the flight, meaning you don't even have a seat.
- The only way to get there in time was to fly out of Montreal on an evening flight, but it was oversold.
- Yet Lai and Conita Hung, head of research at Mansion House Securities Ltd., considered Hong Kong stocks were oversold to some extent.
1.1Exaggerate the merits of: computer-aided software engineering has been oversold...
- Time after time, when they could have oversold the joke, they showed restraint… which, again, is saying something considering how tough some of the gags are.
- We tend to be foisting the blame on the individual here, when I think in your article you said medicine's got to take some of the blame here because we've oversold the benefits of medicine.
- While the Xinxiang choir artificially oversold the Aboriginal aspect of some of its songs and there were one or two sour notes, the children's choir really was moving.