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Definition of oversell in English: oversellverboversold əʊvəˈsɛlˌoʊvərˈsɛl [with object]1Sell more of (something) than exists or can be delivered. (超出供应力地)过多出售 he defrauded investors by deliberately overselling time shares 他故意超量出售分时度假住房来蒙骗投资者。 Example sentencesExamples - The bull alert phase is simply a reversal into a new column of X's from below 30% on the chart, and it indicates that the index is oversold and due for a bounce.
- One of the issues that the vendors have been working to overcome is the perception that some have tried to oversell their wares and have created chaos instead of streamlined workflow.
- In many instances, this leads to one company overselling products they can't quite deliver on and then watching as another matches them.
- They're overselling a product that's selling itself.
- They have oversold the plane and we have to bribe our way onto it.
- On the other hand, the market in which he'd made a career was desperately oversold.
- ‘Street agents’ eager to take advantage of the naivete of young football players will oversell them on their skills and falsely raise their expectations.
- They regularly oversell the number of seats on a given flight.
- Most battered Asian share markets staged a technical rebound Monday with bargain hunters snapping up grossly oversold stocks in anticipation of a rebound in the U.S. markets later in the day.
- If you can't, that may be a sign that the flight is full - and if a flight is oversold, passengers without seat assignments usually are at the greatest risk of being denied boarding.
- The recovery in the Nasdaq is more a reaction to the market being oversold and cuts in US short-term interest rates.
- The company still isn't profitable, but investors are perhaps beginning to think that the shares are oversold.
- Aviation analysts said most airlines oversold tickets up to a certain rate to protect their interests and ensure full occupancy especially in busy season such as summer.
- Normally if a flight is oversold, we sometimes have a chance of getting on it, last minute, especially using a higher priority as we chose to use this day.
- More often than not, the airline has oversold the flight, meaning you don't even have a seat.
- After thinking on Dec.4 that they had confirmed seats on a flight, that airline called back Dec.11 to say the flight was oversold and they had been removed from the passenger list.
- The only way to get there in time was to fly out of Montreal on an evening flight, but it was oversold.
- But while he got as far as the obligatory buck-stops-here mea culpa, he did not confess to the main charge: overselling the weapons.
- Also during the showing of the film, the theater operators oversold the capacity of the theater and packed patrons on folding chairs in the aisle.
- Yet Lai and Conita Hung, head of research at Mansion House Securities Ltd., considered Hong Kong stocks were oversold to some extent.
- 1.1 Exaggerate the merits of.
过分吹嘘 computer-aided software engineering has been oversold 计算机辅助软件工程的优点被夸大了。 Example sentencesExamples - This Government continues to oversell its spin on these sorts of amendments to try to get what it wants.
- We tend to be foisting the blame on the individual here, when I think in your article you said medicine's got to take some of the blame here because we've oversold the benefits of medicine.
- But the selling point of these films is that they present these contrasts and conflicts within the scene without overselling their respective positions.
- From the 1930s until the 1950s, psychoanalysis was oversold, especially in the United States.
- What it's saying is that chemotherapy is oversold.
- While future non-lethal technologies may achieve the promises articulated by today's visionaries, the tendency to oversell current capabilities could prove disastrous.
- While the Xinxiang choir artificially oversold the Aboriginal aspect of some of its songs and there were one or two sour notes, the children's choir really was moving.
- Certainly, some readers might accuse the author of overselling his champion.
- What you'll notice more than at any other time in the history of the show is it is focusing its fervor, intent on not only exploiting a point or political agenda, but also overselling it outright to the audience.
- The commercial conflicts of interest between rigorous science and advertising claims or editorials that oversell a medicine or treatment demonstrate yet another aspect of the inextricable mix of science with the social world.
- In our euphoria over the public demonstration of airpower's considerable abilities and accomplishments, we should not oversell it or lose sight of its limitations.
- Some blame high divorce rates in the Bible Belt on a culture that oversells marriage to couples too young to understand the deal.
- In other words, ID is oversold and underdeveloped.
- Okay, so that oversells it a little, but not by much.
- With this disclaimer, the author embarks on another quest to tell the truth about the Christian life ‘without overselling it.’
- I think you are overselling the wonders of liability in several ways.
- The literature of psychotherapy has oversold the concept of healing-through-narrative-construction.
- I certainly oversold the enthusiasm my dear wife would feel for hosting an uncle she'd never met.
- Time after time, when they could have oversold the joke, they showed restraint… which, again, is saying something considering how tough some of the gags are.
- But it is probably fair to say that the benefits are oversold.
Synonyms overstate, overemphasize, overstress, overestimate, overvalue, magnify, amplify, aggrandize, inflate
Definition of oversell in US English: oversellverbˌōvərˈselˌoʊvərˈsɛl [with object]1Sell more of (something) than exists or can be delivered. (超出供应力地)过多出售 a surge in airlines overselling flights Example sentencesExamples - Yet Lai and Conita Hung, head of research at Mansion House Securities Ltd., considered Hong Kong stocks were oversold to some extent.
- Also during the showing of the film, the theater operators oversold the capacity of the theater and packed patrons on folding chairs in the aisle.
- But while he got as far as the obligatory buck-stops-here mea culpa, he did not confess to the main charge: overselling the weapons.
- The recovery in the Nasdaq is more a reaction to the market being oversold and cuts in US short-term interest rates.
- Normally if a flight is oversold, we sometimes have a chance of getting on it, last minute, especially using a higher priority as we chose to use this day.
- Most battered Asian share markets staged a technical rebound Monday with bargain hunters snapping up grossly oversold stocks in anticipation of a rebound in the U.S. markets later in the day.
- The company still isn't profitable, but investors are perhaps beginning to think that the shares are oversold.
- On the other hand, the market in which he'd made a career was desperately oversold.
- After thinking on Dec.4 that they had confirmed seats on a flight, that airline called back Dec.11 to say the flight was oversold and they had been removed from the passenger list.
- More often than not, the airline has oversold the flight, meaning you don't even have a seat.
- They have oversold the plane and we have to bribe our way onto it.
- The bull alert phase is simply a reversal into a new column of X's from below 30% on the chart, and it indicates that the index is oversold and due for a bounce.
- In many instances, this leads to one company overselling products they can't quite deliver on and then watching as another matches them.
- One of the issues that the vendors have been working to overcome is the perception that some have tried to oversell their wares and have created chaos instead of streamlined workflow.
- The only way to get there in time was to fly out of Montreal on an evening flight, but it was oversold.
- If you can't, that may be a sign that the flight is full - and if a flight is oversold, passengers without seat assignments usually are at the greatest risk of being denied boarding.
- ‘Street agents’ eager to take advantage of the naivete of young football players will oversell them on their skills and falsely raise their expectations.
- They're overselling a product that's selling itself.
- Aviation analysts said most airlines oversold tickets up to a certain rate to protect their interests and ensure full occupancy especially in busy season such as summer.
- They regularly oversell the number of seats on a given flight.
- 1.1 Exaggerate the merits of.
过分吹嘘 computer-aided software engineering has been oversold 计算机辅助软件工程的优点被夸大了。 Example sentencesExamples - But the selling point of these films is that they present these contrasts and conflicts within the scene without overselling their respective positions.
- Time after time, when they could have oversold the joke, they showed restraint… which, again, is saying something considering how tough some of the gags are.
- From the 1930s until the 1950s, psychoanalysis was oversold, especially in the United States.
- While future non-lethal technologies may achieve the promises articulated by today's visionaries, the tendency to oversell current capabilities could prove disastrous.
- This Government continues to oversell its spin on these sorts of amendments to try to get what it wants.
- In our euphoria over the public demonstration of airpower's considerable abilities and accomplishments, we should not oversell it or lose sight of its limitations.
- I certainly oversold the enthusiasm my dear wife would feel for hosting an uncle she'd never met.
- Some blame high divorce rates in the Bible Belt on a culture that oversells marriage to couples too young to understand the deal.
- While the Xinxiang choir artificially oversold the Aboriginal aspect of some of its songs and there were one or two sour notes, the children's choir really was moving.
- What you'll notice more than at any other time in the history of the show is it is focusing its fervor, intent on not only exploiting a point or political agenda, but also overselling it outright to the audience.
- What it's saying is that chemotherapy is oversold.
- Okay, so that oversells it a little, but not by much.
- The literature of psychotherapy has oversold the concept of healing-through-narrative-construction.
- I think you are overselling the wonders of liability in several ways.
- Certainly, some readers might accuse the author of overselling his champion.
- In other words, ID is oversold and underdeveloped.
- With this disclaimer, the author embarks on another quest to tell the truth about the Christian life ‘without overselling it.’
- The commercial conflicts of interest between rigorous science and advertising claims or editorials that oversell a medicine or treatment demonstrate yet another aspect of the inextricable mix of science with the social world.
- But it is probably fair to say that the benefits are oversold.
- We tend to be foisting the blame on the individual here, when I think in your article you said medicine's got to take some of the blame here because we've oversold the benefits of medicine.
Synonyms overstate, overemphasize, overstress, overestimate, overvalue, magnify, amplify, aggrandize, inflate
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