Definition of Overspeculate

1. Verb. (finance) To spend too much money in speculation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overspeculate

1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overspeculate

overspecialised
overspecialises
overspecialising
overspecialization
overspecializations
overspecialize
overspecialized
overspecializes
overspecializing
overspecific
overspecificity
overspecified
overspecifies
overspecify
overspecifying
overspeculate (current term)
overspeculated
overspeculates
overspeculating
overspeculation
overspeeding
overspend
overspender
overspenders
overspending
overspendings
overspends
overspent
overspice
overspiced

Literary usage of Overspeculate

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

1. On Political Economy: In Connexion with the Moral State and Moral Prospects by Thomas Chalmers (1832)
"It is true, that the same general recklessness which leads men to overspend, might lead them to overspeculate; but it is far more to the latter, ..."

2. The Struggle Over Ratification, 1846-1847 by Milo Milton Quaife (1918)
"... the people to overspeculate and plunge, as in 1836, into ruinous debts and a state of bankruptcy, then the convention might have been subject to the ..."

3. Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin by State Historical Society of Wisconsin (1918)
"Had an inflated condition of the currency existed, and, consequently, a disposition on the part of the people to overspeculate and plunge ..."

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