overpay
verb (used with object)
to pay more than (an amount due).
overpays
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present tense formof overpay (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Record-breaking purchases of NBA, NFL and MLB teams are often initially considered overpays, yet soon are deemed bargains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
In “D.C. overpays landlords by millions to house its poorest,” readers learned that in our nation’s capital, the D.C.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2023
The DWP estimates it overpays £160m in carer's allowance a year and is now trying to claw back some of that money.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2018
The two biggest contracts of the offseason, signed by first baseman Eric Hosmer and pitcher Yu Darvish, already look like overpays, as neither has impressed this year.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2018
Old sorrows are forgotten now, Or but remembered to make sweet the hour That overpays them; wounded hearts that bled Or broke are healed forever.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Richard Henry Stoddard
