(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.
Undervalue
Definition:
(v. t.) To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate.
(v. t.) To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise.
(n.) A low rate or price; a price less than the real worth; undervaluation.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, while he considers the stock undervalued, the hedge fund boss said the software firm had missed a string of opportunities under Ballmer's "Charlie Brown management", referring to the hapless star of the Peanuts cartoon strip.
(2) In the past, economists had widely viewed the yuan as artificially undervalued , but China during the past year has spent hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign currency reserves to keep the yuan from falling further – prompting the US Treasury to ease its warnings on Beijing’s currency practices.
(3) Is teaching undervalued in universities compared to research?
(4) 2.59pm BST Vince Cable also suggests people may have been carried away by the talk that the Royal Mail is being undervalued.
(5) Hayes said that the jump in Royal Mail's share price this morning showed that the company had been undervalued by a billion pounds, adding: It's outrageous what's happening today.
(6) Donnelly, a former chief of staff to the Liberal minister Kevin Andrews, recently attacked the curriculum for “uncritically promoting diversity” and undervaluing western civilisation and “the significance of Judeo-Christian values to our institutions and way of life”.
(7) It is well known that 'professionals' tend, often for institutional reasons, to play down or undervalue factors which are not defined by their particular expertise.
(8) Lew has charged China with intentionally undervaluing its currency, the yuan, in order to boost exports, leading the state newswire Xinhua to accuse him of making "fact-twisting and politically misleading remarks".
(9) However, several investors argued the deal undervalued the bank, which a year ago was worth more than £5bn.
(10) Studies of benefits and costs of vaccines generally undervalue the net benefits gained by prevention of pain and suffering associated with disease morbidity and mortality.
(11) But the clinical assessment with inclusion of AP was inferior to AP alone as a predictor of metastases, due to undervaluation of the importance of elevated AP in cases of colorectal disease.
(12) We'll soon see which firms meet his standards.... • MPs are very concerned that Royal Mail's property assets are undervalued, and may hold Cable accountable.
(13) Visualization of the various arteries was achieved in a high percentage of cases except for the inferior pancreaticoduodenal arches, due to undervaluation of this vessel by celiac angiography.
(14) However, some coal payments will remain and critics say the policy still undervalues energy saving measures.
(15) If universities are the prestigious eldest, and schools the cosseted youngest, then further education (FE) is the unloved middle child of our education system – undervalued and often neglected.
(16) As a subordinate, second chamber the House of Lords is an effective, vital but undervalued part of our political system.
(17) They don't believe the physician payment reform will bring gains for their undervalued evaluation and management services.
(18) It also claims the terms of the contract are non-negotiable, and undervalue the music of these labels in comparison to Spotify, Rdio, Deezer and other subscription streaming services.
(19) Gadolinium-pentetic acid MRI provides useful information about activity of the disease that cannot be obtained clinically even if the dynamic of the lesions may be undervalued in old plaques.
(20) I suspect he thinks it is undervalued – I suspect he has bought his stake in it for that reason."