Usually means: Printed over previously existing designs.
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  1. overprinted: Merriam-Webster
  2. overprinted: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overprinted: Vocabulary.com
  4. overprinted: Wordnik
  5. overprinted: Wiktionary
  6. overprinted: Dictionary.com
  7. overprinted: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. overprinted: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overprint)

noun:  (philately) The addition of new text on a previously printed stamp, usually to add a surcharge or change the face value.
noun:  (geology) The set of petrological, structural, and/or mineralogical characteristics superimposed onto rock by the action of geological processes over deep time, by analogy with the original sense of the word.
verb:  To print over what has already been printed.
verb:  (transitive, philately) To add an overprint to (a stamp).
verb:  (transitive) To print too many copies of.
verb:  (printing) To overlap different colours to avoid gaps.
verb:  (geology) To superimpose a new set of petrological, structural, and/or mineralogical characteristics onto rock by the action of geological processes over deep time, by analogy with the original sense of the word.
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