Provide more funding for (something) than is necessary or permitted.
the widespread view is that the corporation is now seriously overfunded
Example sentencesExamples
- President Carter's plans for those post-tenure years were overfunded by an average of 13.8 percent of those plans.
- Nobody can say the arts are overfunded, and this scheme makes available to people like me the opportunity to contribute to our cultural heritage.
- It is a sad reflection on this government's priorities that it is quite happy to overfund the roads lobby while leaving people on hospital trollies.
- So even if a district has overfunded a particular reserve, it does not have access to that money in times of need.
- Look closely at the actuarial assumptions to determine if the plan is overfunded or underfunded.