Definition of Overletting

1. overlet [v] - See also: overlet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overletting

overlegislated
overlegislates
overlegislating
overlend
overlending
overlends
overlength
overlengthen
overlengthened
overlengthening
overlengthens
overlengths
overlent
overlet
overlets
overletting (current term)
overleverage
overleveraged
overleverages
overleveraging
overlewd
overliberal
overliberally
overlick
overlicked
overlicking
overlicks
overlie
overlier
overliers

Literary usage of Overletting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life and Letters of Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle by Edmund Sheridan Purcell (1900)
"This system is distinguished by two features, (1) The excessive overletting of Land, for it appears that the amount of rent is such that it absorbs the ..."

2. The Metropolitan (1832)
"... and it may be considered an improper interference with private property ; but the peace of the country is often disturbed by the overletting of land, ..."

3. The Mining Reports: A Series Containing the Cases on the Law of Mines Found by Robert Stewart Morrison, Emilio Dominguez De Soto (1904)
"Such overletting held fraud. Plaintiffs leased oil and gas land from the owner, and afterwards sublet a portion of it to an oil company, which agreed to ..."

4. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ... Account of the (1795)
"... by the overletting of the boat, and loft many of the natural productions which he had collected. ..."

5. Public Finance by Charles Francis Bastable (1903)
"80-83 ! ar>d Sir J. Caird deprecated under-letting, but wisely remarked that the opposite error of overletting is much more hurtful. ..."

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