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- noun Excessive
expansion , especially expansion that is notsustainable
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Examples
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If there is a gradual "overexpansion" in a sector, then this is just one of the elements that is causing the usual structural unemployment.
What is the GDP Gap?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Durant lost control of General Motors the first time -- through overexpansion -- in 1910.
Steve Mariotti: Memories of Flint, Part 2 Steve Mariotti 2011
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As Josh Sanburn of TIME Magazine noted, Borders made a series of bad business decisions that led to its demise, including its outsourcing of its online bookselling to Amazon, its failure to develop an e-reader competitor to Kindle and NOOK, its overexpansion to too many stores, and its overinvestment in music sales.
Larry Atkins: Borders Closings Are Another Step Towards Community Isolation Larry Atkins 2011
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As Josh Sanburn of TIME Magazine noted, Borders made a series of bad business decisions that led to its demise, including its outsourcing of its online bookselling to Amazon, its failure to develop an e-reader competitor to Kindle and NOOK, its overexpansion to too many stores, and its overinvestment in music sales.
Larry Atkins: Borders Closings Are Another Step Towards Community Isolation Larry Atkins 2011
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Durant lost control of General Motors the first time -- through overexpansion -- in 1910.
Steve Mariotti: Memories of Flint, Part 2 Steve Mariotti 2011
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Second, overexpansion of coastal-port development and construction has clearly led to excessive competition between ports.
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The number of wind turbine manufacturers has increased in China due to strong support from the central government, but the country recently implemented measures to curb overexpansion.
China Ming Falls, ChinaCache Jumps in Debuts Lynn Cowan 2010
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Durant lost control of General Motors the first time -- through overexpansion -- in 1910.
Steve Mariotti: Memories of Flint, Part 2 Steve Mariotti 2011
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We saw short-term stimulus packages, temporary tax rebates or surcharges, go-stop monetary policy with inflationary overexpansion followed by severe contraction, wage-and-price guidelines and controls.
Economics for the Long Run John B. Taylor 2012
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Durant lost control of General Motors the first time -- through overexpansion -- in 1910.
Steve Mariotti: Memories of Flint, Part 2 Steve Mariotti 2011
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