over-investment

over-investment
over-investment ˌover-inˈvestment also overinvestment noun [uncountable] FINANCE ECONOMICS
the act of investing more money in something than is needed:

• Companies which have done badly have paid the penalty of over-investment in plant and materials.

— over-invest verb [intransitive] :

• Water companies fear that they are being made to over-invest in environmental clean-up operations.

— compare under-investment

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over-investment UK US (also overinvestment) noun [U]
ECONOMICS, FINANCE a situation in which too much money is invested in a particular activity or economy: »

Years of over-investment have left the region with more factories making chips than the global economy can sustain.

Compare UNDERINVESTMENT(Cf. ↑underinvestment)

Financial and business terms. 2012.

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