Usually means: Exceeding budgeted or planned expenditure.
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  1. overspend: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overspend: Merriam-Webster
  3. overspend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overspend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overspend: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overspend: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overspend, overspend: Wordnik
  8. overspend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overspend: Wiktionary
  10. overspend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overspend: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. overspend: Dictionary.com
  13. overspend: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. overspend: Rhymezone
  15. overspend: FreeDictionary.org
  16. overspend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. overspend: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overspend: Legal dictionary

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▸ verb:  To spend too much money; especially, to spend more than one earns.
▸ noun:  The amount by which someone or something is overspent.

Similar:
outspend, splash out, overspeculate, overbuy, overpay, forspend, forespend, outgo, outbuy, overinvest, more...

Opposite:
underspend, save, economize, frugalize

Types:
overindulge, extravagant, prodigal, wasteful, luxurious, more...

Colors:
    red,     crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     maroon, more...


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Similar:
outspend, splash out, overspeculate, overbuy, overpay, forspend, forespend, outgo, outbuy, overinvest, more...

Opposite:
underspend, save, economize, frugalize

Types:
overindulge, extravagant, prodigal, wasteful, luxurious, more...

Colors:
    red,     crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     maroon, more...



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