overinvest

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ invest.

Verb

overinvest (third-person singular simple present overinvests, present participle overinvesting, simple past and past participle overinvested)

1. To invest an excessive amount.

   Antonym: underinvest

   • 2023 March 15, Brian X. Chen, Nico Grant, Karen Weise, “How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Amazon may have overinvested in making new kinds of hardware, like now-discontinued alarm clocks and microwaves that worked with Alexa, which sold at or below cost, the former executive said.