Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To build over or on top of.
- transitive v. To construct more buildings in (an area) than necessary.
- transitive v. To build with excessive size or elaboration.
- intransitive v. To construct more homes, office buildings, or commercial complexes than necessary in an area.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To perform excessive construction on a building or in an area.
- v. To build over or on top of another structure.
- v. To build with excessive size or elaboration.
- v. To construct more homes, office buildings, or commercial complexes than necessary in an area.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To build over.
- transitive v. To build too much; to build beyond the demand.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To cover, overhang, span, or traverse with a building or structure; build over.
- To build more than the area properly admits of, or than the population requires: as, that part of the town is overbuilt.
- To build beyond the demand; build beyond one's means.
Etymologies
Examples
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I expect to "overbuild" in the areas of electricity, and water as most mexicans use very little.
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E and the $89 million grant application, saying the infrastructure already exists on Guam and an "overbuild" by IT
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It's also rejected Telecom and Vodafone's proposals to do it for the government and left open the threat of 'overbuild'.
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NBN Co should be prepared to "overbuild" up to 70,000 km of monopoly backhaul links at a cost of $3.5 billion - except in places where long-term leases on existing dark fibre assets can be secured, according to the NBN
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The ownership of the hotel and I share the same vision and that is not to overbuild the hotel but to keep it as it was at inception.
Victoria Namkung: A Chat With the Sunset Marquis GM of 20 Years, Rod Gruendyke
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"It's very hard to overbuild in this region, because of urban growth boundaries and a fairly limited supply of developable property," says Randall Pozdena, managing director of ECONorthwest, a Eugene, Ore. -based consultancy.
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In short, they've yet to overbuild in those markets while long-haul fiber-optical opportunities to connect faster wireless networks heat up.
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From there, using new open source set-top tech, Verizon's overbuild venture will offer third-party developers the option to hatch its new "Bazaar," in what officials there label the equivalent of the iPhone applications store.
Interactive at Last, Interactive at Last? - Simon Applebaum - MediaBizBlogger
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More than 45 million homes nationwide have the option of watching up to 11,000 programs a month, at their leisure, from their local cable, satellite or overbuild provider.
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: Merry VOD, Mr. Bewkes - Simon Applebaum - MediaBizBloggers
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Their inexperience makes them overbuild: they'll create huge, overcomplicated agreements, and spend hours arguing over irrelevant things.
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