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Overpayment   /ˈoʊvərpˌeɪmənt/   Listen
Overpayment

noun
1.
A payment larger than needed or expected.
2.
The act of paying too much.





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"Overpayment" Quotes from Famous Books



... apply such unbusinesslike methods as to pay two or three times the value of the article purchased, upon the implied or real obligation of the seller to return, at some time in the future, some part of the overpayment, but with no definite agreement as to how much, or at what time it should be returned? What merchant could maintain his credit for any considerable time if he made his other purchases as he does his life insurance? Life insurance is a commodity to be bought and paid for ...
— The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 - Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 • Various
... eyes with a look of appreciation that seemed to him overpayment for a service proposed, rather than done. She went on, then, with a ...
— The Duke Of Chimney Butte • G. W. Ogden
... its reverence—the dust-taking was left out. It made my master smile; he asked nothing better than that courtesy should stoop less low. "Respect given and taken truly balances the account between man and man," was the way he put it, "but veneration is overpayment." ...
— The Home and the World • Rabindranath Tagore


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