(v. t.) To hold or value too highly; to estimate at too dear a rate.
Example Sentences:
Overvalue
Definition:
(v. t.) To value excessively; to rate at too high a price.
(v. t.) To exceed in value.
Example Sentences:
(1) The carbon bubble refers to the overvaluation of fossil fuel reserves and related assets should the world meet its stated objective of limiting climate change.
(2) "The current massive overvaluation of the Swiss franc poses an acute threat to the Swiss economy and carries the risk of a deflationary development," said Switzerland's central bank.
(3) Ocado's float plan has been criticised from the outset, with analysts and institutional investors insisting the business was overvalued.
(4) In a hard-hitting report on the countries facing macroeconomic imbalances, such as overvalued housing markets or hefty government debts, the European commission identified a total of 13 member states – including France, the Netherlands and Belgium – which it said should take urgent action to restore the health of their economies.
(5) The value of Brazil's currency, the real, has ballooned since President Lula took power, leaving exporters despondent and leading Goldman Sachs to classify it as the most overvalued currency on earth.
(6) A phenomenological explanation, the belief of pregnancy as an overvalued idea, is discussed.
(7) That is leading to a so-called carbon bubble, an overvaluation of oil companies' financial value, they have said .
(8) The result is that students will go for the overvalued qualifications and shun those which are undervalued.
(9) Fathom argues instead for changes that would direct any fresh electronic cash at what it sees as the source of the UK's economic crisis: an overvalued UK housing market.
(10) The patients with the left lesion were more characterized by psychastheniclike features, motor inhibition with marked rigidity and emotive poverty, torpidity of affects, hypochondriasis, readiness for overvalued formations.
(11) It also cites the bailout of banks involved in lending too much against "overvalued assets", saying: "Taxpayers have consequently been participants and losers in a process of unsustainable public service delivery."
(12) More specifically, the role of nurses who control the therapeutic milieu and provide 24-hour patient management within the inpatient setting has become devalued, while the newer role of the nurse in the outpatient settings is not only overvalued but is, in many instances, in conflict with the outpatient psychiatric services offered by other professions.
(13) We must try to build pressure to try to make that 2C assumption correct and the forecast of the energy companies wrong.” Stern’s intervention comes after Shell CEO Ben van Beurden told the Guardian that his company would continue to look for new reserves of oil and did not believe its assets were overvalued or unusable as a result of current or reasonably foreseeable future legislation concerning carbon.
(14) China’s currency no longer looks undervalued; it looks overvalued, making life a lot tougher for Chinese exporters competing with other Asian countries, including Japan, that have seen devaluations.
(15) The carbon bubble refers to the overvaluation of fossil fuel reserves and related assets should the world meet its stated aim of limiting climate change.
(16) Oracle said they weren't buyers because even at $6bn – Autonomy's stockmarket value at the time – it was overvalued.
(17) The Swiss central bank stunned markets by attempting to reverse the "massive overvaluation" of the Swiss franc, which hit record highs against the dollar as a perceived haven, by cutting interest rates.
(18) It wanted slower but more sustainable growth that gradually took the heat out of overvalued property and share prices.
(19) It must stay shackled to an overvalued rate of exchange lest the great European cause suffer and ever closer union be tarnished.
(20) "The penis is much overvalued," he declared to Connie.