Definition of "overtrading" [o•ver•trad•ing]

• Present participle of overtrade. (verb)

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• "But there is a condition called overtrading, where a business sells too much too quickly and grows too rapidly."
• "The situation is called overtrading and it can strike healthy businesses that sell too much too quickly, and grow too rapidly."
• ""If it were a child we would call it hyperactive; if it were a patient we would diagnose it with bipolar disorder; if it were a trader we would fire it for overtrading," wrote Ilan Solot , a London-based economist at Brown Brothers Harriman."