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Definition of Overbuild
1. v. t. To build over.
Definition of Overbuild
1. Verb. (transitive) To perform excessive construction on a building or in an area. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To build over or on top of another structure. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To build with excessive size or elaboration. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) To construct more homes, office buildings, or commercial complexes than necessary in an area. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overbuild
1. [v -BUILT, -BUILDING, -BUILDS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overbuild
Literary usage of Overbuild
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Electrical Cases (cited Am Electl. Cas.): Being a Collection of All by William Weeks Morrill, Frank Bixby Gilbert, Austin B. Griffin (1904)
"Appellee was obliged to overbuild, rather than underbuild, the appellant's
telephone line for the distance of these six ..."
2. American Electrical Cases. 1873-[1908]. (1904)
"The proof shows that it would be a violation of safe telephone construction to
cross the street at such a point, and overbuild such high potential wires. ..."
3. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1913)
"One case is that of the Bell telephone interests in Illinois against the Springfield
and Northeastern Traction Co., as to the right to overbuild an existing ..."
4. The Nineteenth Century (1886)
"... holder of the living, as if his personal interest were the only thing to consider.
As it would not be allowable for a Plutus to overbuild, so it would ..."
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