Overrecover
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To recover more money than was actually owed.
"Where the estimate overstates a utility's costs, allowing the utility to overrecover its costs, the amount of the overrecovery generally is required to be returned to the ratepayers through a cost of service adjustment […]"
Example
More examples"Where the estimate overstates a utility's costs, allowing the utility to overrecover its costs, the amount of the overrecovery generally is required to be returned to the ratepayers through a cost of service adjustment […]"
Etymology
From over- + recover.
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