Meanings
plural overinvestments
- countableuncountableExcessive investment, especially in one particular area
Due to our overinvestment in financial stocks, we will be unable to pay the heating bill this year.
1 more example
In his 2010 special, Do Nothing: Live, he describes his overinvestment in an upcoming date, convincing himself as much as the audience: "Sex can just be fun. It can just be fun. It can just be fun. No one ever says, 'Oh, you're playing all that tennis; where's it leading?'"
2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 224
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Germanic*uber
- Old Englishofer-
- Middle Englishover-
- Englishover-
- Englishinvestment
- Englishoverinvestment
From over- + investment.
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