Definition of Oversale

1. the act of overselling [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversale

overruleth
overruling
overrulingly
overrulings
overrun
overrunner
overrunners
overrunneth
overrunning
overruns
overs
oversad
oversaid
oversail
oversails
oversale (current term)
oversales
oversalt
oversalted
oversalting
oversalts
oversample
oversampled
oversamples
oversampling
oversang
oversanguine
oversaturate
oversaturated
oversaturates

Literary usage of Oversale

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

1. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"The oversale of power, by the Commission, resulting from the time distribution of the respective superimposing pay peaks is quite an appreciable amount, ..."

2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"The I'salins have been reprinted in С oversale's Remains, 1846, Hvo. т. 56, 143 and 157. See FOX'H Book of The Psalter or Boke of ..."

3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"... examining their property or consulting their papers. SAIL OVER. Any projection or jutting beyond the general wall surface. Also, sale over, oversale, ..."

4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"A boaster. (Fr.) VAUNT-WARDE. The avant-guard. (A.-N.) VAUSE. According to Holme, " to make the jaunies to oversale the mullions. ..."

5. Commentaries Upon International Law by Robert Phillimore (1855)
"Spain obtained the oversale; but France had not succeeded in obtaining it as late as 1762, when she in consequence refused Peter III. the title of Emperor: ..."

6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"V. Я. Same — oversale of stock.. 5. Where a corporation in its formative stage discovers that it has oversold its au ..."

7. The Bank and the Treasury: Bank Capitalization and the Problem of Elasticity by Frederick Albert Cleveland (1908)
"... accounts outstanding — no other evidence is needed of over-issue of credit-accounts or oversale of "deposit" obligations on the part of the banks. ..."

8. The Bank and the Treasury: Bank Capitalization and the Problem of Elasticity by Frederick Albert Cleveland (1905)
"... accounts outstanding — no other evidence is needed of over-issue of credit-accounts or oversale of "deposit" obligations on the part of the banks. ..."

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