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Definition of Overexpanded
1. overexpand [v] - See also: overexpand
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overexpanded
Literary usage of Overexpanded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1917)
"... When the actual expansion ratio of the nozzle is greater than required, the
nozzle is said to be overexpanded; when smaller, under- expanded. ..."
2. Great Debates in American Hist: From the Debates in the British Parliament by United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament, Marion Mills Miller (1913)
"The war of overexpanded credit upon labor and its products, aided by a great
national bank at some distant capital, or by the concentration at or near the ..."
3. Bank Credit: A Study of the Principles and Factors Underlying Advances Made by Chester Arthur Phillips (1920)
"... in checking up borrowings as to "shut and bar the door" against unsafe and
overexpanded makers of paper. Many of the most serious disappointments ..."
4. Japan by the Japanese: A Survey by Its Highest Authorities by Alfred Stead (1904)
"They acted impulsively in many enterprises, and rushed into all kinds of business,
because the Government had overexpanded her enterprises after the Chino- ..."
5. Japan by the Japanese: A Survey by Its Highest Authorities by Alfred Stead (1904)
"They acted impulsively in many ', enterprises, and rushed into all kinds of
business, because the Government had overexpanded her enterprises after the ..."
6. Value for Money: The Hong Kong Budgetary Process by Alvin Rabushka (1976)
"Better to accumulate reserves than face possible cutbacks in overexpanded and
inflated government programs predicated on a greater revenue basis. ..."
7. Credit of the Nations: A Study of the European War by James Laurence Laughlin (1918)
"The latter country had been overexpanded before the war, brought to a halt in
1913, and plunged into a banking crisis in the early part of 1914. ..."
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