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Definition of Overtrades
1. overtrade [v] - See also: overtrade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtrades
Literary usage of Overtrades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1840)
"When the bank overtrades largely, purchasing up the securities that individual
capitalists would desire to possess, deposits accumulate in her hands, ..."
2. Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative by Herbert Spencer (1891)
"When not only the trader who adulterates or gives short measure, but also the
merchant who overtrades, the bank-director who countenances an exaggerated ..."
3. Essays: Moral, Political and æsthetic by Herbert Spencer (1882)
"When not only the trader who adulterates or gives short measure, but also the
merchant who overtrades, the bank-director who countenances an exaggerated ..."
4. Essays: Moral, Political and æsthetic by Herbert Spencer (1882)
"When not only the trader who adulterates or gives short measure, but also the
merchant who overtrades, the bank-director who countenances an exaggerated ..."
5. English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of by George Roy Elliott (1913)
"When not only the trader who adulterates 25 or gives short measure, but also the
merchant who overtrades, the bank-director who countenances an exaggerated ..."
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