overspeculate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]overspeculate (third-person singular simple present overspeculates, present participle overspeculating, simple past and past participle overspeculated)
- (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.”
- To speculate excessively.