overspeculate

English

Etymology

over- +‎ speculate

Verb

overspeculate (third-person singular simple present overspeculates, present participle overspeculating, simple past and past participle overspeculated)

1. (finance) To spend too much money in speculation.
   • 1910 February 26, Collier's, volume 44, page 10:

     […] that under our present way of doing business there was a tendency to overspeculate on future advances in value; that such overspeculation always tended to produce a reaction; that there were evidences at the present time of the beginning of such a speculative fever […]

   • 2009 August 8, Paul Sullivan, “There’s Value in Real Estate, if You Find Your Florida”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “It’s overdeveloped, overspeculated and overleveraged.”

2. To speculate excessively.

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