overspend
verb (used without object)
to spend more than one can afford.
overspends
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present tense formof overspend (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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And with many health boards facing significant overspends, one way of cutting costs over the short term is to freeze some recruitment.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
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
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
