overtrade

English

Etymology

over- +‎ trade

Verb

overtrade (third-person singular simple present overtrades, present participle overtrading, simple past and past participle overtraded)

1. To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or selling them; to overstock the market.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “overtrade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• over-rated, overrated, overtread

Dutch

Verb

overtrade

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of overtreden