Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause (a company) to have an excess amount of capital.
- transitive verb To estimate the value of (property) too highly.
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- verb transitive to
estimate thevalue of acompany ,stock etc too highly - verb transitive to
capitalize a business beyond a sustainable level
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant
- verb estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level
- verb overestimate the market value of
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Examples
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DUBLIN/LONDON-Ireland expects to "overcapitalize" its ailing banks and force them to sell more assets or transfer more loans to the country's "bad bank" as part of an industry overhaul that may see more nationalizations.
Thestar.com - Home Page Carmel Crimmins 2010
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DUBLIN/LONDON-Ireland expects to "overcapitalize" its ailing banks and force them to sell more assets or transfer more loans to the country's "bad bank" as part of an industry overhaul that may see more nationalizations.
Thestar.com - Home Page Carmel Crimmins 2010
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"overcapitalize" its banks in return for EU/IMF assistance.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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In the excitement of improving your home, its easy to overcapitalize.
Enough Already Peter Walsh 2009
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BTW, my two years of German in college has made me prone to overcapitalize and that has nothing to do with my political views.
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A more usual practice, and more dangerous - because it deceives even the intelligent-is to overcapitalize an honest business, to issue "watered" stock-that is, stock in excess of the actual value of plant, patents, and other assets.
Problems of Conduct Durant Drake
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I know there's other people out there talking about tighter spacing, but as an industry we have a tendency to overcapitalize our successes.
unknown title 2011
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