overvalue

[oh-ver-val-yoo]

verb (used with object)

overvalued, overvaluing 

1. to value too highly; put too high a value on.

   They should be careful not to overvalue the property.

Other Word Forms

• overvaluation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of overvalue¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; over- + value

Example Sentences

Despite the increase in the percentage of bulls, 57% of Big Money managers say they think stocks are overvalued, compared with just 3% who call the market undervalued.

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The Beyond Meat meme stock surge comes against a backdrop of jitters about an overvalued stock market.

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By almost every metric, the dollar remains overvalued relative to other currencies, he said.

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Before Tuesday's dollar sale, the central bank's last market intervention was in September, when it sold over $1.1 billion in three days to prop up the peso, which economists say is substantially overvalued.

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Before that deal, Buffett had been hoarding cash, a sign that he believed the market was overvalued.

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