Definition of Overlending

1. overlend [v] - See also: overlend

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlending

overlearning
overlearns
overlearnt
overleather
overleave
overleaven
overleavened
overleavening
overleavens
overlegalization
overlegislate
overlegislated
overlegislates
overlegislating
overlend
overlending (current term)
overlends
overlength
overlengthen
overlengthened
overlengthening
overlengthens
overlengths
overlent
overlet
overlets
overletting
overleverage
overleveraged
overleverages

Literary usage of Overlending

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Great Depression, 1929-1938: Lessons for the 1980s by Christian Saint-Etienne (1984)
"... why there were no checks on bank overlending to poorly managed corporations or to developing countries for motives other than profitable investment at a ..."

2. Banking Reform by James Laurence Laughlin (1912)
"When loans are paid only by contracting new ones, so that the fluid funds originally advanced have become tied up in fixed forms, inflation or overlending ..."

3. Banking and Business by Henry Parker Willis, George William Edwards (1922)
"This test may be supplemented by observing the ratio which loans bear to deposits, to discover any tendency toward overlending. ..."

4. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1839)
"But all the just advantages derivable from this security are nothing to the evils brought on the trade by such excessive overlending or overselling, ..."

5. A Treatise on Coins, Currency, and Banking: With Observations on the Bank by Henry Nicholas Sealy (1858)
"... and gold being exported in their stead; but it was not the overissue of notes which raised prices, but the overlending of money to individuals, ..."

6. The New York Stock Exchange: A Discussion of the Business Done by H. S. Martin (1919)
"Since "banks base the amount to Cheating the be lent on a given security" on Lender quotations from the Exchange, the overlending on stocks and bonds by ..."

7. Monthly Consular and Trade Reports by United States Bureau of Manufactures (1894)
"... rowing led to overlending, and these to speculation, inflation, and extravagance, to check which this scourge of financial ruin was a necessity ..."

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