overfrank

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verb

To pay excessive franking credits.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

verboverfrank (third-person singular simple present overfranks, present participle overfranking, simple past and past participle overfranked)

present singular third person overfranks · participle present overfranking · participle past overfranked · past overfranked

  1. To pay excessive franking credits.

    Conversely, a company should only frank dividends to the extent available as it may be liable to franking deficit tax if it overfranks its dividends.

    2003, Lyndal Taylor, Small Business and Tax
  2. hobbiesTo apply stamps with a higher value than the postage required to a letter.

    Why would the UNPA overfrank a piece of mail?

    2001, The American Philatelist, volume 115, page 390
adjectiveoverfrank (comparative more overfrank, superlative most overfrank)

comparative more overfrank · superlative most overfrank

  1. Excessively frank or candid.

    Sam Cassell is a little loud, a little overfrank sometimes.

    2002, Jayson Williams, Loose Balls: Easy Money, Hard Fouls, Cheap Laughs, and True Love in the NBA

Origin

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overfrank,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overfrank.

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