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Overvalue

To value excessively; to rate at too high a price.

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Broader term 1

Value 76% connected

The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; wor…

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Overestimate 74% connected

To estimate too highly; to overvalue.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Overestimate 74% connected

To estimate too highly; to overvalue.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Overvaluation 74% connected

Excessive valuation; overestimate.

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Overvaluation 74% connected

Excessive valuation; overestimate.

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Synonym 1

Overestimate 92% connected

To estimate too highly; to overvalue.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Undervalue 94% connected

To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate.

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Undervalue 94% connected

To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate.

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Advance verb · 78% connection

An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.

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Appreciate verb · 78% connection

To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.

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Arbitrage noun · 78% connection

a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price; when there is a difference in the price of something on two…

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At preposition · 78% connection

The relation of a point or position in a series, or of degree, rate, or value; as, with the thermometer at 80?; goods sold at a cheap…

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Backwardation noun · 78% connection

the market condition wherein the price of a forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity.…

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Buy verb · 78% connection

To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by t…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: value, excessively, rate, high, price.
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Cheap noun · 78% connection

Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.

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Cheapness noun · 78% connection

Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.

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Cost noun · 78% connection

value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something; "the cost in human life was enormous"; "the price of su…

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Dearly adverb · 78% connection

At a high rate or price; grievously.

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Depreciate verb · 78% connection

To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.

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Erythrocyte sedimentation rate noun · 78% connection

the rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions; a high rate usually indicates the prese…

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ESR noun · 78% connection

the rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions; a high rate usually indicates the prese…

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Fixed exchange rate noun · 78% connection

an exchange rate for a currency where the government has decided to link the value to some valuable commodity like gold; a fixed excha…

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High adjective · 78% connection

greater than normal in quantity or amount; "a high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of his career"; "high risks"; "has hi…

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Horse power unknown · 78% connection

A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines…

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Lombard rate noun · 78% connection

an interest rate charged by a central bank for very short term loans to other banks against an approved collateral.; "Lending is via c…

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Low superl. · 78% connection

Beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the ordinary value; moderate; cheap; as, the low price of corn; low wages.

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