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- verb Present participle of
overbuild .
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Examples
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The biggest problem with this overbuilding is that developers are all targeting the deep-pocketed "luxury" market and there are fewer in this demographic willing to pay what developers think they deserve.
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… It simply stopped, and a lending discipline went in place that has prevented us from the same kind of overbuilding and has, I think, kept this market, on a relative basis, pretty healthy.
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… It simply stopped, and a lending discipline went in place that has prevented us from the same kind of overbuilding and has, I think, kept this market, on a relative basis, pretty healthy.
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… It simply stopped, and a lending discipline went in place that has prevented us from the same kind of overbuilding and has, I think, kept this market, on a relative basis, pretty healthy.
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… It simply stopped, and a lending discipline went in place that has prevented us from the same kind of overbuilding and has, I think, kept this market, on a relative basis, pretty healthy.
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Forbes indicated that "overbuilding" was Arizona's problem.
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Most sectors also haven't suffered from the kind of overbuilding that pulverized commercial property in the early 1990s.
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Westport were ever filled to overflowing with merchandise, being inclined rather to assign their vast size to that tendency towards overbuilding which is a permanent characteristic of a generous and hopeful people.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
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In the end, however, GAO thought both agencies did a decent job of evaluating these first phase applications-in particular ciphering the claims of existing broadband providers who charged that funding a new entity would result in the "overbuilding" of broadband infrastructure in their service region.
Ars Technica 2010
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"The problems we are having in the economy have to do with a lot of different parts," added Bloomberg, saying that "overbuilding" in the housing market and other economic activities that in no way fell under the S. E.C.'s jurisdiction had a good deal to do with the current crisis.
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