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What (who) is overspend - definition
overspend
(overspent)
1.
If you overspend, you spend more money than you can afford to.
Don't overspend on your home and expect to get the money back when you sell...
I overspent by ?1 on your shopping so I'm afraid you owe me...
He argued that local councils which overspend should be forced to face fresh elections.
VERB: V on n, V by amount, V
2.
If an organization or business has an overspend, it spends more money than was planned or allowed in its budget. (BRIT BUSINESS; in AM, use overrun
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Efforts are under way to avoid a ?800,000 overspend.
N-COUNT: usu sing
overspend
¦ verb (past and past participle overspent) spend too much.
¦ noun an act of overspending.
spending
.PNG?width=200 "Energy consumption per capita-Iran (Cro)")
PURCHASE AND USE OF GOODS AND SERVICES
Spending; Household consumption; Mass consumption economy; Domestic consumption; Private consumption; Private spending; Economic consumption; Economic consumer; 💸; Spend; Theory of consumption
see spend
Examples of use of overspend
1. Training staff accounts for almost all overspend. × Housing benefit system.
2. "Without setting priorities, the temptation is to overspend.
3. That overspend was not anyones fault, Lord Falconer said.
4. Most of the overspend went into paying for extra healthcare.
5. They bungled other pay rises that led to an overspend of 200million a year.