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Etymology edit

over- +‎ invest

Verb edit

overinvest (third-person singular simple present overinvests, present participle overinvesting, simple past and past participle overinvested)

  1. To invest an excessive amount.
    Antonym: underinvest
    • 2023 March 15, Brian X. Chen, Nico Grant, Karen Weise, “How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      Amazon may have overinvested in making new kinds of hardware, like now-discontinued alarm clocks and microwaves that worked with Alexa, which sold at or below cost, the former executive said.