overrecover

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verb

To recover more money than was actually owed.

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Meanings

verboverrecover (third-person singular simple present overrecovers, present participle overrecovering, simple past and past participle overrecovered)

present singular third person overrecovers · participle present overrecovering · participle past overrecovered · past overrecovered

  1. To recover more money than was actually owed.

    Where the estimate overstates a utility's costs, allowing the utility to overrecover its costs, the amount of the overrecovery generally is required to be returned to the ratepayers through a cost of service adjustment […]

    1997, Federal income tax issues arising in connection with proposals to restructure the electric power industry, page 36

Origin

From over- + recover.

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APA

overrecover. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overrecover

MLA

“overrecover.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overrecover. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overrecover,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overrecover.

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