Definition of oversold
:likely to show a rise in price because of prior heavy selling and accompanying decline in price
- an oversold stock
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The policy changes at United included reducing the overbooking of flights and increasing the potential payouts to people who voluntarily give up their seats on an oversold flight to as much as $10,000.
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Melissa Jacobs of TheFootballGirl.com (@thefootballgirl), an avid 49ers fan, believes Garcon is being slightly oversold, and that Jeremy Kerley, Marquise Goodwin and Aldrick Robinson are being overlooked.
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Now the company is trying to make oversold flights less of a problem.
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Weir and Samuel are suspicious that the project's potential has been oversold, the risks of building a conference center minimized.
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Still, some investors thought the tech stocks had been oversold, and bought into the dip.
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The internet is often oversold in terms of radicalization,’ says Colin Clarke, a counterterrorism expert at RAND.
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A man is dragged off an oversold United flight in Chicago.
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CEO Oscar Munoz issued multiple apologies, and the carrier promised to reduce overbooking and offer as much as $10,000 to customers who give up their seats on oversold flights.
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First Known Use of oversold
circa 1890
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