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  • verb Present participle of overbuy.

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Examples

  • Otherwise, a company is still overbuying capacity for planned spikes in demand.

    IBM Thinks Its Cloud Role Will Be in Services and Software 2009

  • It turns out that even the experts get tripped up by the same shopping mistakes as everyone else: overbuying, procrastination, impulsive purchasing and falling prey to promotions.

    Kit Yarrow, Ph.D.: Even the Experts Are Imperfect Holiday Shoppers Ph.D. Kit Yarrow 2011

  • Which brings me back to my perennial issue of how to maintain the Christmas spirit, honor the choice of my family this year to put wrapped gifts under the tree, while not getting pepper sprayed or trampled in the process or falling into my old patterns of overbuying.

    Dr. Judith Rich: Confessions of a Recovering Holiday Shopper: 2011 Update Dr. Judith Rich 2011

  • It turns out that even the experts get tripped up by the same shopping mistakes as everyone else: overbuying, procrastination, impulsive purchasing and falling prey to promotions.

    Kit Yarrow, Ph.D.: Even the Experts Are Imperfect Holiday Shoppers Ph.D. Kit Yarrow 2011

  • It turns out that even the experts get tripped up by the same shopping mistakes as everyone else: overbuying, procrastination, impulsive purchasing and falling prey to promotions.

    Kit Yarrow, Ph.D.: Even the Experts Are Imperfect Holiday Shoppers Ph.D. Kit Yarrow 2011

  • Which brings me back to my perennial issue of how to maintain the Christmas spirit, honor the choice of my family this year to put wrapped gifts under the tree, while not getting pepper sprayed or trampled in the process or falling into my old patterns of overbuying.

    Dr. Judith Rich: Confessions of a Recovering Holiday Shopper: 2011 Update Dr. Judith Rich 2011

  • Which brings me back to my perennial issue of how to maintain the Christmas spirit, honor the choice of my family this year to put wrapped gifts under the tree, while not getting pepper sprayed or trampled in the process or falling into my old patterns of overbuying.

    Dr. Judith Rich: Confessions of a Recovering Holiday Shopper: 2011 Update Dr. Judith Rich 2011

  • It turns out that even the experts get tripped up by the same shopping mistakes as everyone else: overbuying, procrastination, impulsive purchasing and falling prey to promotions.

    Kit Yarrow, Ph.D.: Even the Experts Are Imperfect Holiday Shoppers Ph.D. Kit Yarrow 2011

  • I question whether the Fed has repealed a law we learned in high-school economics: a period of consumer overbuying is followed by a period of retrenchment, and that a period of massive overbuying must be followed by ...

    Where's the Surprise 2010

  • Peter Boockvar, equity strategist with Miller Tabak, wrote in a note Wednesday that the market was getting ready for a major rally over the next half-year, fueled by a combination of relief on the European credit front, continued loose U.S. monetary policy and a "very underinvested money-management community," though he also warned of overbuying in the short term.

    No Legs for Earnings Rally 2010

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