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单词 overspend
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Definition of overspend in English:

overspend

verboverspent əʊvəˈspɛndˌoʊvərˈspɛnd
[no object]
  • Spend more than the expected or allotted amount.

    they overspent on the project
    with object the department is going to overspend its budget
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The department has spent 99% of its budget and is expected to overspend by the end of this financial year.
    • The hospital has recently lost an NHS star for overspending but its record of care remains intact.
    • But last month the Council heard that with the continued level of spending, social services is likely to overspend by £2.3 million this year.
    • One way to ensure that you're not overspending on your household budget is to buy competitively priced flat-pack furniture.
    • Although we have a winter maintenance budget, if we overspend, the money comes out of the reserves.
    • It was hard times for a few years as many companies had overspent and then cut back on spending, he said.
    • There have also been forecasts that today's move will be ‘toughened up’ with grim warnings to some local authorities that they could be budget-capped in future years if they overspent.
    • Members of Airedale Primary Care Trust Board heard at its last meeting that the Trust is expected to overspend by more than £2 million this financial year.
    • Research has shown that poor planning is the demon, with a quarter of families still happily overspending at Christmas and failing to keep to their original budgets.
    • Early projections show the department is on course to overspend by £1.3 million unless action is taken.
    • Departments of education, planning and transport, resources and social services are all expected to overspend.
    • He's run for local office seven times since 1981, generally on a platform of government waste, overspending, corruption, and mismanagement.
    • Fostering is also expected to overspend by £1 million, while the amount spent on children in secure accommodation is £800,000 into the red.
    • The board was over £1 million overspent at the end of the November 2003, but after a series of cuts to save money has reduced this to an estimated £320,000.
    • The district judge's finding that the husband had unreasonably overspent in housing himself was wrong and miscalculated.
    • This is despite the fact they failed to take action to stop the Trust overspending by £8 million.
    • Administration at Dundee has necessarily been a process of pruning, of ripping out waste and overspending and installing efficiency where previously there was none.
    • The council does have fixed budgets for each department, however, a spokesperson pointed out - and if one department overspent, that money would have to come from another department or council reserves.
    • Other departments are also expected to overspend by more than £1.5m.
    • After six months, the department is on course to overspend by £1.5 million, up £200,000 from September's figure.
    Synonyms
    squander, waste, misuse, misspend, spend unwisely, throw away, dissipate, make poor use of
noun ˈəʊvəspɛnd
  • An act of overspending.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We've made huge progress, but a forecast overspend is not an acceptable position because there is an absolute requirement that we live within our means.
    • The commission looked at a number of projected overspends and was told that four council directorates had put in place moratoriums on spending to control the situation.
    • The overspend is being covered using public money from a variety of sources.
    • Scottish Enterprise is in something of a crisis as overspends put a strain on its ability to deliver key services.
    • The trust is having some terrible financial difficulties and needs to identify up to £7million of savings by the end of this financial year if the worst case scenario of overspends and funding allocations occurs.
    • From a very reasonable original cost of eight months ago, we are now facing a huge overspend on the project.
    • Schools with overspends pointed to factors outside their control, such as unanticipated drops in pupil numbers.
    • With less than three months of the financial year left, the council still has to find savings of £800,000, having already reduced the overspend from £1.8million.
    • A long history of wrangling between ministers and Scottish Opera came to a head last year when the Executive refused to increase funding to make up for what it saw as a series of overspends by the company.
    • The council's internal investigation into the overspend at Canon Lee School was made public on February 26, following the Bishophill by-election on the previous Thursday.
    • We laugh at the huge overspends on the Scottish parliament and on non-working national computer projects but these blunders hit our local pockets directly.
    • And the overspend, which would be funded largely by York taxpayers, could be as high as £700,000 by the time the project is completed - and leave the school with a sports hall with less facilities than expected.
    • Much of the overspend is due to the fact that the council has responded compassionately to the needs of vulnerable people.
    • Various project boards have been set up to examine ways of reducing the overspends.
    • We have serious concerns because we know that within the NHS new projects have been started, and when they are being funded they have been discovered to have gross overspends.
    • The Labour-run council was attacked by opposition councillors for placing the blame on its staff rather than department overspends.
    • Sir - I see we are already into frontline service cuts to deal with overspends in the regeneration division and the ever-growing chief executive's department.
    • She also said the trusts could not use the proceeds of any buildings it owns, such as hospitals, to pay off overspends.
    • Officers are working on the assumption that those overspends will be cleared.
    • We do not want to get a nasty surprise and find all our local government tax bills are going up because of the overspend.
 
 

Definition of overspend in US English:

overspend

verbˌōvərˈspendˌoʊvərˈspɛnd
[no object]
  • Spend more than the expected or allotted amount.

    they overspent on the project
    with object the department can see that it is going to overspend its budget
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Administration at Dundee has necessarily been a process of pruning, of ripping out waste and overspending and installing efficiency where previously there was none.
    • The hospital has recently lost an NHS star for overspending but its record of care remains intact.
    • There have also been forecasts that today's move will be ‘toughened up’ with grim warnings to some local authorities that they could be budget-capped in future years if they overspent.
    • The council does have fixed budgets for each department, however, a spokesperson pointed out - and if one department overspent, that money would have to come from another department or council reserves.
    • The board was over £1 million overspent at the end of the November 2003, but after a series of cuts to save money has reduced this to an estimated £320,000.
    • But last month the Council heard that with the continued level of spending, social services is likely to overspend by £2.3 million this year.
    • Departments of education, planning and transport, resources and social services are all expected to overspend.
    • Members of Airedale Primary Care Trust Board heard at its last meeting that the Trust is expected to overspend by more than £2 million this financial year.
    • The district judge's finding that the husband had unreasonably overspent in housing himself was wrong and miscalculated.
    • This is despite the fact they failed to take action to stop the Trust overspending by £8 million.
    • Although we have a winter maintenance budget, if we overspend, the money comes out of the reserves.
    • After six months, the department is on course to overspend by £1.5 million, up £200,000 from September's figure.
    • Other departments are also expected to overspend by more than £1.5m.
    • Research has shown that poor planning is the demon, with a quarter of families still happily overspending at Christmas and failing to keep to their original budgets.
    • Fostering is also expected to overspend by £1 million, while the amount spent on children in secure accommodation is £800,000 into the red.
    • He's run for local office seven times since 1981, generally on a platform of government waste, overspending, corruption, and mismanagement.
    • One way to ensure that you're not overspending on your household budget is to buy competitively priced flat-pack furniture.
    • It was hard times for a few years as many companies had overspent and then cut back on spending, he said.
    • The department has spent 99% of its budget and is expected to overspend by the end of this financial year.
    • Early projections show the department is on course to overspend by £1.3 million unless action is taken.
    Synonyms
    squander, waste, misuse, misspend, spend unwisely, throw away, dissipate, make poor use of
 
 
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