Definition of "overinvested" [overinvested]

• Simple past tense and past participle of overinvest. (verb)
• Subject to excess levels of investment (adjective)

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• "It was a growth model where we overinvested in the most unproductive form of capital, meaning housing."
• "Suffice it to say that former Minister Jalali defended Karzai's government as the only game in town, and I took an opposite view -- suggesting that we had overinvested in Karzai and Afghanistan, which was now trapping and containing American power rather than further leveraging it in the region."
• "It shouldn't have been that surprising given how much they overinvested in real estate, but it is a potential shot across the bow for an even bigger sovereign bond problem or refinancing issue."