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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overspend
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
overspend your budget
▪ The Metropolitan Police has overspent its budget by £70 million.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Too many people overspend during the holidays.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Know how to overspend it to widen your choices, but do not overspend recklessly.
▪ This tells you by how much the Government is overspending.
▪ To cover the shortage, which resulted from years of overspending, about 150 jobs were eliminated and other cuts were made.
▪ Trade journals had pictured the company as overspending right from the start.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
overspend

1610s, "to wear out," from over- + spend. Meaning "to spend more than is necessary" is attested from 1857. Related: Overspent; overspending.

Wiktionary
overspend

n. the amount by which someone or something is overspent vb. To spend too much money; especially, to spend more than one earns.

WordNet
overspend
  1. v. spend more than available of (a budget, for example) [ant: underspend]

  2. spend at a high rate [ant: underspend]

  3. [also: overspent]

Usage examples of "overspend".

That was the fish that all the combines were after, and it was the reason we would all overspend lavishly on this phase.

NASA has overspent its allowance three times in the past two years and crawled back to the President with its tail between its legs and asked for more money to fix its mistakes.

With Sexton trailing badly in the primary polls and his message of government overspending falling on deaf ears, Gabrielle Ashe wrote him a note suggesting a radical new campaign angle.

After four years of overspending, thanks in part to the 1992 riots and a string of natural disasters, the county found its creditors unwilling to lend it any more money.

Given his penchant for gross overspending, his loyalty could all too easily be bought by an enemy, and Mara dared not leave such a threat unattended on her southern border.

She told the senator he should attack NASA's huge budget overruns and continued White House bailouts as the quintessential example of President Herney's careless overspending.

The space agency's recent string of failed missions and gargantuan budget overruns had earned NASA the dubious honor of becoming Sexton's unofficial poster child against big government overspending and inefficiency.

She hadn’t overspent an allowance since she was nine and bought all that candy for visiting cousins.