Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To assign too high a value to.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To set too great value on; rate at too high a price: as, to
overvalue a house; to overvalue one's self. - To exceed in value.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To value excessively; to rate at too high a price.
- transitive verb rare To exceed in value.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To assign an excessive
value to something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb assign too high a value to
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Examples
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The actual overvalue is not an Issue, because Stock Market and Production values accurately reflect the true worth.
Japanese Banks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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To me, the commodity that we consistently overvalue is money, and what we undervalue is our precious and irreplaceable time.
Moo, Baa, Ka-Ching Ka-Ching - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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To me, the commodity that we consistently overvalue is money, and what we undervalue is our precious and irreplaceable time.
Moo, Baa, Ka-Ching Ka-Ching - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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When you read stories that the Yuan is "overvalued by 40%", or whatever, how is that "overvalue" determined?
Trade Deficit a Concern?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And even if she is right that many readers "don't care" about the matters of technique and style she says critics often "overvalue," does this mean critics should abandon more purely literary standards for the vague and untroubled standards she attributes to her infantilized common readers?
Style in Fiction 2009
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Historically, Royal Caribbean hits "overvalue" when it yields 0.6%, which at the current dividend corresponds to a $58 share price, so the stock has a lot of room to run.
Cruise With Value 2006
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And you certainly "overvalue" them when you worship them for being certain things rather than doing certain things. my own view of why civilization seems to be crumbling under our feet; although that remains my answer to the question today.
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One of the dangers of the old privacy ways – in print-on-paper days – "was the risk that people would seriously overvalue the importance of relatively minor instances of private misconduct".
As Twitter and WikiLeaks make a mockery of the high court, is this the end of privacy as we know it? 2011
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This will seriously overvalue the number of "employed" people and under-record the number of students, older school pupils, home-builders, disabled people and carers; how can such skewed data be used for the accurate planning of education and health services?
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It has led us to devalue the specific skills of the craftsman, and overvalue the general knowledge of the office worker.
Sam Chaltain: Don't Believe the Hype (About College) Sam Chaltain 2011
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