overspending
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[edit]Verb
[edit]overspending
- present participle and gerund of overspend
Noun
[edit]overspending (usually uncountable, plural overspendings)
- 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.
- 1972, Great Britain. Treasury, Public Expenditure White Papers: Handbook on Methodology (page 15)