Usually means: Constructing more than is necessary.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. overbuild: Merriam-Webster
  2. overbuild: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overbuild: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overbuild: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overbuild: Wordnik
  6. overbuild: Wiktionary
  7. overbuild: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. overbuild: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. overbuild: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Overbuild, overbuild: Dictionary.com
  11. Overbuild: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. overbuild: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Overbuild: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. overbuild: FreeDictionary.org
  15. overbuild: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overbuild: Financial dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overbuild)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To perform excessive construction on a building or in an area.
verb:  (transitive) To build over or on top of another structure.
verb:  (transitive) To build with excessive size or elaboration.
verb:  (intransitive) To construct more buildings than necessary in an area.

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