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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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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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A police statement said the match appeared to have been oversold.
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United has taken a series of steps to reduce overbooking of flights since the incident and will raise to $10,000 the limit on payments to customers who give up seats on oversold flights, Munoz said.
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Neither Delta nor United is likely to dole out $10,000 to solve an oversold flight.
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First Known Use of oversold
circa 1890
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