Overget

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To get more than expected or due. ambitransitive

    "Some companies hold their clerks responsible to account for the actual amount of the fares on tickets sold, and ignore the question of overgot and undergot money."

  2. 2
    To attain, reach; pass, overtake; come up with; get hold of, catch. archaic, transitive
  3. 3
    To get beyond; get over; recover from. archaic, transitive

Example

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"Some companies hold their clerks responsible to account for the actual amount of the fares on tickets sold, and ignore the question of overgot and undergot money."

Etymology

From Middle English overgeten; equivalent to over- + get. Cognate with Scots overget (“to overtake”). Compare Old English oferġietan (“to forget, disregard, neglect”).

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come up withget over

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