Overrecovery
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The recovery of more money than was actually owed. countable, uncountable
"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- + recovery.
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