FINANCE,STOCK MARKETtheofferorsaleof moresharesin acompanythan isallowed:afraudulentover-issue ofsharesPreventing overissue is thefunctionof a corporation'sregistrar.ECONOMICStheproductionof too manybanknotes(=papermoney):The government's overissue ofnoteswillfuelinflation.overissueverb[T](alsoover-issue)uk
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FINANCE,STOCK MARKETtooffermoresharesin acompanythan isallowed:Theinvestigationfoundthat he had overissuedrailroadshares.ECONOMICStoproducetoo manybanknotes:Thebankoverissuedbanknotes, there was arunon thebank, and itfailed.tosellmoreticketsfor something than there areplaces,seats, etc.available:TVcompaniesroutinelyover-issueticketsfor a show.(Definition ofoverissuefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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overissueThe fundamental concern about inside money is the incentive tooverissue.From theCambridge English CorpusUndue expansion or increase, fromoverissue; -- said of currency.FromProject GutenbergSuch provisions, however, amounted to little, because, much of the loans being simple credits, there was small inducement in the strong banks tooverissuenotes.FromProject GutenbergThis, however, furnishes no adequate security againstoverissue.FromProject GutenbergThe panic of 1873, which prostrated all business, was the result of the excesses of the war, theoverissueof legal tender and the feverish, unhealthy expansion that followed.FromProject GutenbergThese 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.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/overissue##
