Definition of Overtrade

1. v. i. To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.

Definition of Overtrade

1. Verb. To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or selling them; to overstock the market. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overtrade

1. [v -TRADED, -TRADING, -TRADES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtrade

overtone
overtones
overtook
overtop
overtopped
overtopping
overtops
overtout
overtouted
overtouting
overtouts
overtower
overtowered
overtowering
overtowers
overtrade (current term)
overtraded
overtrader
overtraders
overtrades
overtrading
overtrain
overtrained
overtraining
overtrains
overtread
overtreading
overtreads
overtreat
overtreated

Literary usage of Overtrade

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

1. The Young Man's Friend by Artemas Bowers Muzzey (1838)
"Inexperience — Imagination — Reading — Anecdote— The Passions — Self-confidence — Bacon's remark— Indolence — Love of Gain — overtrade — Corrupt Companions ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"The wearing of foreign silks instead of British ones, enlarges the consumption of the latter. To employ the population, even if not fully, is to overtrade. ..."

3. The Congressional Globe by United States Congress, Francis Preston Blair, John Cook Rives, Franklin Rives, George A. Bailey (1833)
"The fact of the overtrade was admitted, and the difference between the gentleman from New York and the President of the Hank was simply that the former ..."

4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1840)
"Where every little community is permitted to provide its own money-shop, and adopt its own mode of facilitating exchanges, banks cannot much overtrade; ..."

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