overcapitalisation

1. 1.

   (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants)

   Synonymsovercapitalization

   Broadercapitalization

   commercial enterprise

Other forms of overcapitalisation

plural

overcapitalisations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overcapitalisation

What does overcapitalisation mean?

overcapitalisation means "(business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants)".

How many syllables are in overcapitalisation?

overcapitalisation has 9 syllables: o-ver-ca-pi-ta-li-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for overcapitalisation?

Close synonyms include overcapitalization. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overcapitalisation a common word?

overcapitalisation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.