overextension
1
5.8
- noun
- /ˌoʊvərɪkˈstɛnʃən/
:
sobrecarga
- We have to be cautious about overextension in our project commitments to ensure we can deliver quality results.
- result of overextension
Examples
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After more than forty years of global overextension, the country is being pulled in two competing directions: one toward reduced commitment and the other toward reduced capability.
Academic text (1994) -
The company's rapid growth led to an overextension of its resources, making it difficult to meet customer demands.
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To guard against overextension, we must insist that others do their share.
Academic text (1998) -
By the eve of the Revolution, the London merchants had become uneasy at the dangerous overextension of their partners in Georgia.
Academic text (2007) -
Finally, the overinvestment in houses does not present the systemic risk of economic breakdown that the overextension of credit does.
Blog text (32) -
The net result is overextension, leading to destabilization and a hardening of ghettoization from the withholding of resources.
Academic text (2009) -
"A decade later, academics such as the Yale historian Paul Kennedy predicted the ruin of the United States, driven by overextension abroad and profligacy at home."
Academic text (2009) -
In my view, the eighty-percent excise tax in question here represents an overextension of Canadian policy, which purported to pursue a national treatment objective in principle, but not really in practice.
Academic text (1997) -
This is, in part, a result of Turkey's economic growth, of the mistakes made by the West in alienating Ankara, and of Turkish overextension, which is in turn related to an inflated view of its newly found role in the world.
Academic text (2012) -
If Lake's answer was flawed, his question—how to avoid overextension without retreating from the world entirely—was legitimate.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
108
3.3
An amount more than needed or allowed
40
5.4
Using more than you need so it is unnecessary
30
4.4
Too much work or information that makes you feel stressed
7
5.7
Too much of something that is not needed
1
6.2
The state of having more than is needed
1
9.1
Taking on too much responsibility for other people's tasks
An amount or level much higher than reasonable
An amount that is more than is needed, often extra food or goods
A state of being more than is needed or wanted
How Stretched
1
5.8
45
5.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overextension comes from the parts over- 'too much' and extend 'to stretch'. Think of a person trying to stretch themselves like a rubber band and taking on more than they can handle; that's why overextension means exceeding limits or taking on too much responsibility.