oversubscribe
to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
Origin of oversubscribe
1Other words from oversubscribe
- o·ver·sub·scrib·er, noun
- o·ver·sub·scrip·tion [oh-ver-suhb-skrip-shuhn], /ˌoʊ vər səbˈskrɪp ʃən/, noun
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How to use oversubscribe in a sentence
Mosaico, for example, was 20x oversubscribed and went up 70% on its first trading day.
US-listed SPACs have a new target: Latin American tech companies | Annie Siebert | March 12, 2021 | TechCrunchA spokesperson for Macrometa said the seed round was oversubscribed because the pandemic has increased investor interest in cloud and edge companies like Snowflake, which recently held its initial public offering.
Macrometa, an edge computing service for app developers, lands $7M seed round led by DNX | Catherine Shu | October 1, 2020 | TechCrunch
British Dictionary definitions for oversubscribe
/ (ˌəʊvəsəbˈskraɪb) /
(tr; often passive) to subscribe or apply for in excess of available supply
Derived forms of oversubscribe
- oversubscription, noun
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