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Definition: OVERTRADING |
OVERTRADINGNoun1. The act or practice of buying goods beyond the means of payment; a glutting of the market. |
Date "OVERTRADING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Business | Trading beyond the limits which can be supported by the existing financial resources of a business. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | Excessive trading of a client's account, in order to increase brokerage commissions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "OVERTRADING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "OVERTRADING" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "OVERTRADING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | kurtagerytteri (churning), churning (churning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | overdreven trading (churning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | churning (churning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | vente forcée, pousse-achat, multiplication des achats. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Überspekulation (churning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | πολλαπλασιασμός δραστηριοτήτων (churning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | ampio numero di operazioni sullo stesso titolo (churning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | overtradingay exceso de transacciones (en la cuenta de un cliente) (churning). (various references) otillbörlig aktiehandel (churning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"OVERTRADING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: overreading, overtrain. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "OVERTRADING" (pronounced 'O`ver*trad"ing'): Abearing, Aboding, Agoing, Awanting, Away-going, Awning, Aworking, Baaing, Ballooning, Birding, Birthing, Bocking, Bolling, Bridgeing, Cannonering, Carking, Colling, Crefting, Deglazing, During, firing, Fleaking, Fleming, flying, Foreholding, Gapesing, Ginging, Gloaming, grasping, grooving, interworking, Loring, Louping, Mandarining, Maying, Meaking, Miching, Misbecoming, Misfeeling, Misguiding, Mispleading, Misproceeding, Mistreading, Miting, Monking, morning, Muting, Newing, Noncomplying, Nonconcluding. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-o-r-r-t-v" | |
-1 letter: denigrator, overdaring, overrating. | |
-2 letters: adverting, overtrain, retarding. | |
-3 letters: adroiter, anterior, arointed, averring, averting, derating, deviator, devoting, donative, dragonet, garroted, gradient, graviton, grievant, invertor, orangier, ordainer, ordering, ordinate, organdie, overgird, overgirt, rationed, ravigote, redating, reordain, revoting, ringdove, treading, veratrin, vintager. | |
-4 letters: adoring, adorner, aneroid, angrier, antired, arrived, avodire, avoider, darting, deaving, deraign, detrain, deviant, diatron. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-o-r-r-t-v" | |
+2 letters: reinvigorated. | |
+3 letters: overdecorating. | |
+4 letters: overadvertising, overdramatizing. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010100 01010010 01000001 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O V E R T R A D I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0056 0045 0052 0054 0052 0041 0044 0049 004E 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4956395254523538434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, danés, dansk |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandés, holländsk |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandés, finés, finsk |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francés, fransk, franska |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemán, tysk |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, griego, grek |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglés, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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