Overspend

Synonyms for "overspend" (55 found)

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Closest matches (11)

be hadcarry too farexaggerateexhaustgo overboardgo to extremesgo too farknow no bounds
Noun(2 words)
Verb(1 words)

Strong matches (17)

Related words (27)

overplayoverreactoverstrainoverstressoverstudyovertaskovertaxovertrainoveruseoverworkpass all boundspaypay dearlypay exorbitantlypay too muchprotest too much
Verb(6 words)
Adjective(1 words)
wasted money

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

5 entries

More specific

4 entries
credit card debtluxury overspendingoverdrawn accountunplanned overspending

Collocations

5 entries
excess spendingluxury overspendingoverspending habitspending problemuncontrolled overspending

Inflections

3 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Antonyms

1 entries

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

When you travel abroad, you start to feel very expansive, and it's easy to overspend in a mood like that.

Source: tatoeba (22206)

To get out of debt, first keep a budget and be careful not to overspend.

Source: wiktionary

Whether an underspend or overspend is significant depends upon the size of the budget. A £1,000 overspend on an £8,000 drugs budget is very significant, but a £1,000 overspend may not be significant on a £300,000 ward budget.

Source: wiktionary

Electrification was not included in anticipated CP6 spending, after cost uncertainties following the Great Western Main Line overspend led to cutbacks by the Department of Transport to contain costs.

Source: wiktionary

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