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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbill.

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Examples

  • Given our 2.7 million-strong federal work force, the government effectively overbills Americans by almost $40 billion every year just on labor costs.

    The Government Pay Bonus Andrew G. Biggs And Jason Richwine 2010

  • The contention that "government effectively overbills" taxpayers starts from the unstated premise that the prevailing private pay level is the standard for some notion of a reasonable pay level.

    Is Federal Pay Really Higher Than Private Industry's? 2010

  • In early 2002, GAO got damning evidence: that Halliburton overbills and short-ships - deliberate fraudulent acts as standard company practice, confident it can get away with it, and most often it does.

    Exposing Bush Administration Corruption 2008

  • In early 2002, GAO got damning evidence: that Halliburton overbills and short-ships - deliberate fraudulent acts as standard company practice, confident it can get away with it, and most often it does.

    Exposing Bush Administration Corruption 2008

  • In short, this is nothing more than a numbers game and here's how it's played: XCorporation overbills millions of people KNOWING FULL AND WELL that only a percentage of them will notice or if they notice even fewer will have time to address the phone tag buffer.

    Recent Activity NprComputers 2010

  • Given our 2.7 million-strong federal work force, the government effectively overbills Americans by almost $40 billion every year just on labor costs.

    Brain-Terminal.com Full Feed 2010

  • In short, this is nothing more than a numbers game and here's how it's played: XCorporation overbills millions of people KNOWING FULL AND WELL that only a percentage of them will notice or if they notice even fewer will have time to address the phone tag buffer.

    Recent Activity 2010

  • In short, this is nothing more than a numbers game and here's how it's played: XCorporation overbills millions of people KNOWING FULL AND WELL that only a percentage of them will notice or if they notice even fewer will have time to address the phone tag buffer.

    Recent Activity NprComputers 2010

  • In short, this is nothing more than a numbers game and here's how it's played: XCorporation overbills millions of people KNOWING FULL AND WELL that only a percentage of them will notice or if they notice even fewer will have time to address the phone tag buffer.

    Recent Activity 2010

  • Because of some of the regulatory changes and the lack of competitive overbills on true facilities based networks, we've seen that pricing environment be stable and I would expect with the increased costs of capital, you will continue to see few overbills to compete on a facilities basis and that environment will be stable.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

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