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overspendo‧ver‧spend /ˌəʊvəˈspend $ ˌoʊvər-/ verb (past tense and past participle overspent /-ˈspent/) [intransitive, transitive]  VERB TABLEoverspend |
Present | I, you, we, they | overspend | | he, she, it | overspends | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | overspent | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have overspent | | he, she, it | has overspent | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had overspent | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will overspend | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have overspent |
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Present | I | am overspending | | he, she, it | is overspending | | you, we, they | are overspending | Past | I, he, she, it | was overspending | | you, we, they | were overspending | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been overspending | | he, she, it | has been overspending | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been overspending | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be overspending | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been overspending |
- Too many people overspend during the holidays.
- Know how to overspend it to widen your choices, but do not overspend recklessly.
- This tells you by how much the Government is overspending.
- To cover the shortage, which resulted from years of overspending, about 150 jobs were eliminated and other cuts were made.
- Trade journals had pictured the company as overspending right from the start.
► overspend your budget· The Metropolitan Police has overspent its budget by £70 million. to spend more money than you can afford: The hospital has overspent its budget by £70,000.—overspend /ˈəʊvəspend $ ˈoʊvər-/ noun [countable]: an overspend of £200,000 |