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overpay

/oh-ver-pey/US // ˌoʊ vərˈpeɪ //UK // (ˌəʊvəˈpeɪ) //

多付,多支付,多付了,多付费用

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    o·ver·paid, o·ver·pay·ing.

    • : to pay more than: I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
    • : to pay in excess.

Examples

  • The watchdog concluded in 2006 that the department overpaid one lender, Nelnet, $278 million from 2003 to 2005.

  • Watchdog groups counter that nursing home owners can reap excessive profits from public funds by overpaying their own companies.

  • He was accused of overpaying for all of them, but in retrospect they all look like bargains.

  • Investors are worried that AstraZeneca is overpaying for Alexion, offering a 45% premium to the Boston-based company’s current share price, valuing the company at more than 40 times its trailing 12-month earnings.

  • While the acquisition will help Salesforce take on Microsoft in the great battle for corporate customers, some will inevitably ask if the company overpaid.

  • Of course it's perfectly reasonable to try to make sure that you don't overpay and end up underwater.

  • Yes, education is an investment in yourself, but there's no reason to overpay for the asset.

  • But Lewis, according to White's memo, said he didn't overpay.

  • He should have been fired already for his decision in 2008 to overpay for both Countrywide Financial and Merrill.

  • It is not such a triumph to overpay by $3 billion on a $5 billion deal.

  • The fact is, that it is almost necessary to overpay cabmen, and especially so if the "fare" be at all nervous.

  • I have been flourishing it about a great deal to pay, or rather overpay, gondoliers.

  • He binds Himself to repay and overpay all sacrifice in His service.

  • No American can overpay the debt of gratitude we all of us owe to the officers and enlisted men of the army and of the navy.

  • After all, immortality opens a large hope, that may overpay the most unspeakable bitterness of life.