Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To buy in excessive amounts.
- intransitive verb To buy (stock) on margin in excess of one's ability to provide further security if prices drop.
- intransitive verb To buy goods beyond one's means or needs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To buy at too dear a rate; pay too high a price for.
- To buy to too great an extent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To buy too much.
- transitive verb To buy at too dear a rate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
buy excessively, especially to buy more than oneneeds or canafford .
Etymologies
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Examples
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One important lesson is not to overbuy, in anything.
Women Grow Business » “Don’t overbuy, in anything”: Lessons from Scribendi Founder Chandra Clarke 2009
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Instead members of the Saudi royal family must either overpay or overbuy from foreign companies in order for those companies to return a percentage of that money (usually around 10-12%) back to the Saudi royals personal accounts.
Jeremy White: Following the Money in U.S.-Saudi Arms Deals 2010
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Instead members of the Saudi royal family must either overpay or overbuy from foreign companies in order for those companies to return a percentage of that money (usually around 10-12%) back to the Saudi royals personal accounts.
Jeremy White: Following the Money in U.S.-Saudi Arms Deals 2010
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Of course, we overbuy and end up with way more tomatoes than we can use.
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"Our strategy is to overbuy in this 24-month window" before home prices start to rise, said Ken Campbell, Standard Pacific's chief executive.
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You know, when I go shopping, when my husband goes shopping for a party, we always overbuy.
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How many cell users buy more minutes than they need, and how much do they overbuy?
Cell-plan usage: How much do consumers overbuy minutes? 2009
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I have a 55% chance .. but I have a feeling its because I overbuy in the canned food aisle and I own various weapons.
Oh noes!!!1! 2007
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STEPHANIE NELSON, "THE COUPON MOM": Well, the big thing to avoid is to not overbuy at this time of year.
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In other words, the amount of oil one can actually buy futures for so that you're buying what you need and you can't overbuy.
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