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Overprize
Definition:
(v. t.) Toprize excessively; to overvalue.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have not turned the tide on the ease with which money can be shifted out of developing countries.” There are lots of ways to get money out of a country undetected but the easiest is through trade misinvoicing, which is the overpricing of imports and the underpricing of exports – and accounts for 77% of all illicit financial flows.
(2) The grotesque merry-go-round of more people selling fewer overpriced homes is in full swing.
(3) Confessions of a location scout: why the New York beloved of the movies doesn't exist any more Read more Meanwhile, those apartment and condo owners who are full-time residents routinely join landlords in jacking up commercial rents, driving out beloved small businesses and neighbourhood eateries, and reducing the cityscape to a monoculture of faceless chain stores, nail salons, bank branches and overpriced restaurants.
(4) Someone pass me my phone, I have to send the real estate agent a picture of the flooded bathroom in my overpriced sharehovel so they fix it before Monday and I don’t smell bad at my Centrelink appointment.
(5) They are thoughtful, friendly, articulate; they don't share Justin's hang-ups about the Guardian; they accept there are many legitimate criticisms of the City – the accountant even recognises that the domination of the big four accountancy firms is a cartel; and they don't wash down the expensive meal (paid for by the accountant, thank goodness) with a ludicrously overpriced bottle of wine; in fact they don't drink any alcohol.
(6) I gaze, bemused and, yes, fascinated, at curious anthropological artefacts such as Bride Wars or He's Just Not That Into You or Confessions of a Shopaholic, in which Kate Hudson or Ginnifer Goodwin or Isla Fisher play characters who might almost belong to a third gender, a bubble-headed one that emits ear-splitting shrieks, teeters constantly on the verge of hysteria and acts as an indiscriminate mouthpiece for the placement of overpriced tat.
(7) After all, why should Visa want spectators to associate their products with the sense of frustration that comes from queuing for hours – especially in order to buy hugely overpriced food and drink?
(8) For decades, it has been plain that new houses are unimaginative, overpriced, undersized and resistant to the kind of technical improvement that is standard in industries such as car making.
(9) You've nothing to lose but your overpriced season tickets.
(10) The Italian greasy spoon (now gone) sold overpriced, watery cappuccino, but was only yards from both Downing Street and the Treasury, and its interior, only dimly visible from the street, was small enough to deter eavesdroppers.
(11) If governments are not to become dependent on “insider” corporations, with the exclusion of other voices, overpricing and grotesque corruption risks that entails, then the ironclad regulation of lobbying and the re-establishment of disinterested civil and public service capacity should now be on every democrat’s agenda.
(12) This has resulted in a youthful population eager to try new foods and brands long denied to their parents' generation, despite many of the products being overpriced for the average Vietnamese.
(13) Overutilization of care must be discouraged by proper incentives, and overpricing by physicians may require fixed cost reimbursement.
(14) After a decade under siege – with big pharma being accused of overpricing patented brands and blocking access to cheaper, generic and often life-saving drugs – GlaxoSmithKline committed to put chemical processes that it has intellectual property rights over that are relevant to finding drugs for neglected diseases into a patent pool so they can be explored by other researchers.
(15) The president of the private enterprise chamber Fedecamaras has admitted some cases of overpricing in the retail industry.
(16) Walmart has stoked controversy in the US with allegations of anti-union policies, overpriced health insurance, predatory pricing and poor relations with staff, some of whom, it is claimed, have been paid below the minimum wage.
(17) A hairless mons pubis simply does not accessorise well with one's kale, cucumber and pear juice, you see, and kale juice is just so terribly, terribly NOW, you know, what with it being tasteless, sugar-free and overpriced.
(18) Corruption allegations have swirled around the overpriced radar deal since it was signed in 2001, with former Labour minister Clare Short saying: "It was always obvious that this useless project was corrupt."
(19) The journey goes something like this: Sit in cold, crappy station with overpriced food until slow train to Peterborough arrives.
(20) Buying an overpriced sports car sends the message, "I've got so many resources, I can afford to squander some of them."
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.