OVERSPEND (overspent)

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Irregular inflected form: overspent   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does overspend mean? 

• OVERSPEND (verb)
  The verb OVERSPEND has 2 senses:

1. spend more than available of (a budget)

2. spend at a high rate

  Familiarity information: OVERSPEND used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERSPEND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they overspend    ... he / she / it overspends   
Past simple: overspended   
Past participle: overspended   
-ing form: overspending   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spend more than available of (a budget)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

spend (spend completely)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

underspend (spend less than the whole of (a budget, for example))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spend at a high rate

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

consume; squander; ware; waste (spend extravagantly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

underspend (spend at less than the normal rate)