overspeculate

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verb

To spend too much money in speculation.

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Meanings

verboverspeculate (third-person singular simple present overspeculates, present participle overspeculating, simple past and past participle overspeculated)

present singular third person overspeculates · participle present overspeculating · participle past overspeculated · past overspeculated

  1. businessTo spend too much money in speculation.

    “It’s overdeveloped, overspeculated and overleveraged.”

    2009 August 8, Paul Sullivan, “There’s Value in Real Estate, if You Find Your Florida”, in New York Times
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    […] that under our present way of doing business there was a tendency to overspeculate on future advances in value; that such overspeculation always tended to produce a reaction; that there were evidences at the present time of the beginning of such a speculative fever […]

    1910 February 26, Collier's, volume 44, page 10
  2. To speculate excessively.

Origin

From over- + speculate.

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APA

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

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

Chicago

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

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