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overpay
/ ˌəʊvəˈpeɪ /
verb
- to pay (someone) at too high a rate
- to pay (someone) more than is due, as by an error
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Other Words From
- o·ver·pay·ment [oh-ver-, pey, -m, uh, nt, oh, -ver-pey-m, uh, nt], noun
- uno·ver·paid adjective
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Example Sentences
The watchdog concluded in 2006 that the department overpaid one lender, Nelnet, $278 million from 2003 to 2005.
Watchdog groups counter that nursing home owners can reap excessive profits from public funds by overpaying their own companies.
He was accused of overpaying for all of them, but in retrospect they all look like bargains.
Investors are worried that AstraZeneca is overpaying for Alexion, offering a 45% premium to the Boston-based company’s current share price, valuing the company at more than 40 times its trailing 12-month earnings.
While the acquisition will help Salesforce take on Microsoft in the great battle for corporate customers, some will inevitably ask if the company overpaid.
Of course it's perfectly reasonable to try to make sure that you don't overpay and end up underwater.
Yes, education is an investment in yourself, but there's no reason to overpay for the asset.
But Lewis, according to White's memo, said he didn't overpay.
He should have been fired already for his decision in 2008 to overpay for both Countrywide Financial and Merrill.
It is not such a triumph to overpay by $3 billion on a $5 billion deal.
The fact is, that it is almost necessary to overpay cabmen, and especially so if the "fare" be at all nervous.
I have been flourishing it about a great deal to pay, or rather overpay, gondoliers.
He binds Himself to repay and overpay all sacrifice in His service.
No American can overpay the debt of gratitude we all of us owe to the officers and enlisted men of the army and of the navy.
After all, immortality opens a large hope, that may overpay the most unspeakable bitterness of life.
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