Definition of Overexpansion

1. Noun. Excessive expansion, especially expansion that is not sustainable ¹

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Definition of Overexpansion

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overexpansion

overexercise
overexercised
overexercises
overexercising
overexert
overexert oneself
overexerted
overexerting
overexertion
overexertions
overexerts
overexpand
overexpanded
overexpanding
overexpands
overexpansion (current term)
overexpansions
overexpectation
overexplain
overexplained
overexplaining
overexplains
overexplanatory
overexplicit
overexploit
overexploitation
overexploited
overexploiting
overexploits
overexpose

Literary usage of Overexpansion

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

1. Organized Banking by Eugene Ewald Agger (1918)
"CHAPTER V ELASTICITY OF BANK CREDIT: overexpansion AND CONTRACTION While on the one ... overexpansion involves also the question of the security Overlying ..."

2. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of Change (1994)
"3-SL2.5 overexpansion of the Stomach and Intestine The stomach and large intestine ordinarily contain 1.06 quarts (1 liter) or more of entrapped gas. ..."

3. U. S. Navy Diving Manual: Air Diving (1999)
"3-6.9 overexpansion of the Stomach and Intestine. While a diver is under pressure, gas may form within his intestines, or gas may be swallowed and trapped ..."

4. The Financial Policy of Corporations by Arthur Stone Dewing (1920)
"With this overexpansion, the business as a whole earned a steadily declining rate of return on the average unit of investment.8 It became thinner, ..."

5. Principles of Banking: A Series of Selected Materials by Harold Glenn Moulton (1916)
"The result of such loans is overexpansion or inflation of credit, that is, the banks have created obligations against themselves which they are not able to ..."

6. A Text Book of Engineering Thermodynamics by Charles Edward Lucke, John Joseph Flather (1915)
"The reasoning which follows applies equally well to either case, and to any combination of under- or overexpansion in the respective cylinders. .pr-) ..."

7. Principles of Money and Banking: A Series of Selected Materials, with by Harold Glenn Moulton (1916)
"Herein lies the pivotal question of overexpansion. Passing by the question of overexpansion through the issue of notes, it is desired mainly to study here ..."

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