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Definition of Overcapitalisation
1. Noun. (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants).
Generic synonyms: Capitalisation, Capitalization
Category relationships: Business, Business Enterprise, Commercial Enterprise
Derivative terms: Overcapitalise, Overcapitalize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcapitalisation
Literary usage of Overcapitalisation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Distributive Justice: The Right and Wrong of Our Present Distribution of Wealth by John Augustine Ryan (1916)
"Magnitude of overcapitalisation Probably the majority of the great steam railroads,
street railways, and gas companies that were organised during the last ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"This refers only to moderate overcapitalisation, and not to criminal or foolish
valuations. 5. The Development of Trusts. ..."
3. The Trust Movement in British Industry: A Study of Business Organisation by Henry William Macrosty (1907)
"When profits were not forthcoming the shareholders wasted much indignation on
the individuals whom they alleged to be responsible for the overcapitalisation ..."
4. Using Market Mechanisms to Manage Fisheries: Smoothing the Path by Bertrand Le Gallic (2006)
"Such an archetype of competitive TAC situation is in general expected to lead to
overcapitalisation and early quota exhaustion. In this context, a salient ..."
5. Financial Support to Fisheries: Implications for Sustainable Development by Anthony Cox, Carl-Christian Michael Roedsted Schmidt (2006)
"In contrast to other industries, overcapitalisation is not a short run ...
The terms excess capacity, overcapacity and overcapitalisation have been used as ..."
6. Fish Piracy: Combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing by OECD Staff, Committee for Fisheries, SourceOECD (Online service) (2004)
"Arnason, Ragnar, "Fisheries subsidies, overcapitalisation and economic losses".
Steenblik, Ronald P. and Wallis, Paul F. "Subsidies to Marine Capture ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"... developed to excess; overcapitalisation and overproduction followed. The empire
was soon in a-position to supply, more than its own needs. ..."
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