overbuy
verb[IorT]
uk/ˌəʊvəˈbaɪ/usoverbought|overboughtCOMMERCE
tobuymore of something than you need or more than you canpayfor:
Peopletendto overbuy whenshoppingforsupermarketgroceries.
| 单词 | overbuy |
| 释义 | overbuy verb[IorT] uk/ˌəʊvəˈbaɪ/usoverbought|overboughtCOMMERCE tobuymore of something than you need or more than you canpayfor: Peopletendto overbuy whenshoppingforsupermarketgroceries. Examplesofoverbuyoverbuy So the argument that there is something which causes waste and overbuying in the existence of a terminal exchange is not sound. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They have had to stock up against a background of a certain growing shortage; and therefore they have tended tooverbuy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There was, it is true, a considerable amount of retail overbuying at the beginning of the war in anticipation of increased prices, but this has subsided. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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