overcapitalization
Americannoun
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the act or result of providing an excess of capital for a business or industry.
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the overestimation of the value of a business or enterprise.
Example Sentences
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If you look at 1873 or 1929, you can say, “It’s clear, we’ve got an overcapitalization over here, an issue over there”—but the numbers in ’93 were not bad.
From Slate • Nov. 2, 2020
To an ICC which had watched the railroads writhing under overcapitalization, this sort of financing looked all too familiar.
From Time Magazine Archive
He charged them, in addition, with overcapitalization, rigging State public service commissions, selfish nearsightedness.
From Time Magazine Archive
The real trouble with the railroads is the aftermath of frenzied financing and excessive overcapitalization and not bus, truck, airplane, pipeline or waterway competition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even if the business is able to pay good dividends on watered stock, the crime of overcapitalization is not lessened, though the harm done is now not to the investor but to the public.
From Problems of Conduct by Drake, Durant
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