overspend
Americanverb (used without object)
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overspends,
present (3rd person singular)
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overspent,
past participle, past
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overspending
present participle
verb (used with object)
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overspends,
present (3rd person singular)
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overspent,
past participle, past
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overspending
present participle
verb
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to spend in excess of (one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated)
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(tr; usually passive) to wear out; exhaust
noun
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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overspendsimple
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overspendssimple
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have overspentperfect
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has overspentperfect
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am overspendingprogressive
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are overspendingprogressive
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is overspendingprogressive
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have been overspendingperfect progressive
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has been overspendingperfect progressive
Past
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overspentsimple
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had overspentperfect
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was overspendingprogressive
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were overspendingprogressive
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had been overspendingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of overspend
Example Sentences
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That way, when you’re out with friends and tempted to overspend, you’re forced to do so with your debit card, which often forces you to think a little more consciously about the dollar amount.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Hull would say that their overspend did not earn them the place in the play-offs, with the breach only triggered by promotion itself.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
“The last thing somebody in college or just starting out needs to be doing is to overspend chasing rewards. The vast majority of people should just be getting cash back.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
I either overspend on food items, failing to take advantage of hidden deals as I frantically yet desperately attempt to restock my kitchen.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
I am never called anything but Mollie, except when I overspend my allowance, and mother feels it her duty to scold me.
From The Fortunes of the Farrells by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
He adds that, unlike rivals, Apple doesn’t have a cloud business to sell excess compute if it overspends on AI data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Carmy tends to brush off nearly all of her concepts, making Syd question whether she can find the culinary success that’s long eluded her at the side of a colleague who overspends and overreaches.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025
"Many of us have overspends in adult social services. It just feels that we're in an impossible situation."
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2024
On 29 July, the government’s own public finance watchdog - the Office for Budget Responsibility - wrote that it had not been made aware of the extent of overspends.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024
If he overspends his money he is bankrupt, and the person who overspends his strength is for the time physically bankrupt.
From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell
"We have overspent and we have to sell some players before 1 July," Ilicali told a Q&A at the MKM Stadium at the start of the month.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Stocks sold off rapidly on worries that U.S. companies had overspent, but bounced back and continued climbing later in the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Or they overspent on infrastructure they couldn’t operationalize and are now cutting to manage cash flow.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025
The industry hasn’t fully recovered from shutdowns because of the COVID-19 pandemic, labor strikes and a retrenchment by legacy entertainment companies, many of which overspent to build streaming services to compete with Netflix.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025
His aunt said, “He has overspent his power,” but she had no art to help him.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
But Apple’s “go-slow” strategy comes in handy on days when investor concerns about AI overspending flare up, insulating the stock from downturns that hit the semiconductor space.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
LaFontaine pointed to the app’s rating in the Apple app store, now at 4.7, and said addiction and overspending haven’t registered as significant problems in external and internal data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“But if there are people who are overspending, we want to let them know how to manage that.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
These are people who understood money, and in one case managed it professionally, and still found themselves overspending on the app.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
In this protracted struggle, good management dictates that we resist overspending as resolutely as we oppose under-spending.
From State of the Union Address by Dwight D. (Dwight David) Eisenhower
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