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overspending

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Verb

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overspending

  1. present participle and gerund of overspend

Noun

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overspending (usually uncountable, plural overspendings)

  1. The spending of too much money.
    • 1972, Great Britain. Treasury, Public Expenditure White Papers: Handbook on Methodology (page 15)
      Towards the very end of the year it has always been found to be impracticable to avoid overspendings, if only temporary, in some programmes and underspendings in others.