overpay
verb (used with object)
to pay more than (an amount due).
had overpaid
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past perfectof overpay.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The proportion of 1,000 marketing and procurement leaders surveyed by Billion Dollar Boy who said they felt they had overpaid for creator fees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The only specific financial outcome of the report: Auditors discovered the Angels had overpaid $95,000 in ticket revenue to the city in 2021.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
When Arsenal spent £100m to sign West Ham midfielder Declan Rice last summer there was a suggestion in some camps that the Gunners had overpaid.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2024
Musk acknowledged he had overpaid for the company.
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2023
Cambremer was an honest man who'd have tramped fifty miles to return two sous that any one had overpaid him on a bill.
From A Drama on the Seashore by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
