Definition of Overvaluation

1. Noun. An appraisal that is too high.


2. Noun. Too high a value or price assigned to something.
Generic synonyms: Evaluation, Rating, Valuation
Derivative terms: Overvalue

Definition of Overvaluation

1. n. Excessive valuation; overestimate.

Definition of Overvaluation

1. Noun. An instance of overvaluing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overvaluation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overvaluation

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overvaluation (current term)
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overview

Literary usage of Overvaluation

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

1. Actions by and Against Corporations at Law and in Equity: Embracing Also by Joseph Asbury Joyce (1910)
"Stock Issued for Property— Material overvaluation— Stockholders Not ... Stock Issued for Property— Shareholder May Be Liable Where overvaluation Shows Fraud ..."

2. The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and by John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman (1886)
"Int. Co., 66 KC 70, for a case where overvaluation upon a fluctuating stock of goods was held to vitiate an open policy. Great discrepancy in the valuations ..."

3. The Law of Insurance: As Applied to Fire, Accident, Guarantee, and Other Non by John Wilder May, Frank Parsons (1891)
"Where the policy declares that an overvaluation will avoid it, any substantial overvaluation such as would not ordinarily arise from mere difference of ..."

4. Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations: Whether with Or Without by Charles Fisk Beach (1891)
"Presumption of fraud from gross overvaluation.— If the property received is grossly ... But on the ground of gross overvaluation alone, the company might, ..."

5. Accounting Theory and Practice by Roy Bernard Kester (1918)
"Danger of overvaluation Care must always be exercised—even more than in handling the stock-in-trade ..."

6. Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations by Seymour Dwight Thompson (1895)
"No right of action in creditors against directors for fraudulent overvaluation. 1623. Transfer of worthless patented 1637. Corporation a purchaser for ..."

7. Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations: Whether with Or Without by Charles Fisk Beach (1891)
"... accepted at an overvaluation;1 again, some of the subscribers may have neglected to make the cash deposit required by statute to constitute a valid ..."

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