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Definition of Overcapitalise
1. Verb. Estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level.
2. Verb. Overestimate the market value of. "Overcapitalize a property"
3. Verb. Capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant.
Generic synonyms: Capitalise, Capitalize
Derivative terms: Overcapitalisation, Overcapitalization
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcapitalise
Literary usage of Overcapitalise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Using Market Mechanisms to Manage Fisheries: Smoothing the Path by Bertrand Le Gallic (2006)
"The type of system in place should in theory curb tendencies to overfish and
overcapitalise. It is worth noting, however, that the scope for gearing the ..."
2. Introduction to Economics by Henry Rogers Seager (1905)
"How largely it was sometimes necessary to overcapitalise a combination, in order
to satisfy the demands of all those connected with it, is illustrated by ..."
3. The Industrial Conflict: A Series of Chapters on Present-day Conditions by Samuel George Smith (1907)
"... overcapitalise any enterprise, and it is cheaper to pay interest for a part
of the year on the surplus required than to have his own money lie idle a ..."
4. Honest Business: Right Conduct for Organizations of Capital and of Labour by Amos Kidder Fiske (1914)
"Suppose they overcapitalise enterprises and sell shares at fictitious values, or
make combinations to put prices far above cost and get excessive profits. ..."
5. Review of Fisheries in OECD Countries: Policies and Summary Statistics by Emily Andrews-Chouicha (2005)
"Defined as those administrative regulations that influence fishers' incentives
to race for fish and overcapitalise (eg IQ or effort quota) and those ..."
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