OVERCAPITALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overcapitalize mean? 

• OVERCAPITALIZE (verb)
  The verb OVERCAPITALIZE has 3 senses:

1. estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level

2. overestimate the market value of

3. capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant

  Familiarity information: OVERCAPITALIZE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERCAPITALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they overcapitalize    ... he / she / it overcapitalizes   
Past simple: overcapitalized   
Past participle: overcapitalized   
-ing form: overcapitalizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

overcapitalise; overcapitalize

Hypernyms (to "overcapitalize" is one way to...):

capitalise; capitalize (compute the present value of a business or an income)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Overestimate the market value of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

overcapitalise; overcapitalize

Context example:

overcapitalize a property

Hypernyms (to "overcapitalize" is one way to...):

overestimate; overrate (make too high an estimate of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

overcapitalise; overcapitalize

Hypernyms (to "overcapitalize" is one way to...):

capitalise; capitalize (convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

overcapitalization ((business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants))