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Definition of Overspeculating
1. overspeculate [v] - See also: overspeculate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overspeculating
Literary usage of Overspeculating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Industrial History of the United States by Louis Ray Wells (1922)
"In a short time the country was again overinvesting, overspeculating, and too
rapidly expanding, all to be followed by the inevitable decline. ..."
2. Tariff ... Hearing[s] ... on H.R. 7456 by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance (1921)
"Ti- had been overspeculating during the war, and when the hank; the United States
finally took a sledge hammer and ..."
3. Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and by United States Congress, Joseph Gales, William Winston Seaton (1837)
"... public funds were withdrawn from the influence of that financial system which,
through all the reverses consequent upon overtrading and overspeculating, ..."
4. Future Trading in Grain: Hearings, Sixty-seventh Congress, First Session by Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States, Senate, Congress (1921)
"Yours, truly, The law should give the board of trades authority to regulate or
stop any person from what the board of trades would consider overspeculating ..."
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