overreport

English

Etymology

over- + report

Verb

overreport (third-person singular simple present overreports, present participle overreporting, simple past and past participle overreported)

  1. (transitive) To report too much or too often.
    • 2007 January 7, Daniel Gross, “A Phantom Rebound in the Housing Market”, in New York Times:
      Just as the rising tide of cancellations leads the Census Bureau to overreport sales in the short term, it leads the government to underreport inventories.

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