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Examples of overspend in a Sentence
The studio clearly overspent on marketing, and the movie was still a flop.
Recent Examples of overspend from the Web
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Faced with those hurdles, Orlando would have to overspend for second-tier free agents this summer, and new president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman and new GM John Hammond seem reluctant to take on major long-term salary commitments.
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Pollick left Birmingham-Southern College after a series of accounting errors and overspending left the liberal arts school in deep financial trouble.
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Subsequent financial audits uncovered frequent policy violations in department spending under Teague and overspending on travel by men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino.
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The complaint seeks damages for overspending on drugs and for costs associated with drug addiction prevention and treatment.
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Governing is about setting priorities, and the federal debt is not the result of Congress overspending on science and energy research each year.
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The conventional view of how New York was brought to the brink of disaster is that the city had been overspending since at least 1960, making up for its immense revenue shortfalls by borrowing on the public markets.
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Even Google was criticized for overspending on investment, something shareholder pressure pushed back on and caused the company to change.
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The important thing is not to overspend, given the rate at which systems become obsolete.
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First Known Use of overspend
1593
OVERSPEND Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of overspend for English Language Learners
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: to spend more than the planned or proper amount of money
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