Overrecover

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 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

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"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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