Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - overvalue

(overvalues, overvaluing, overvalued) To overvalue something, often a cost or rate of exchange, means to fix its value at too high a level compared with other similar things. ...a rate which does not overvalue the pound... Many, perhaps all, Internet stocks are hugely overvalued. ? undervalue VERB: V n, be V-ed • overvaluation These problems were aggravated by the overvaluation of the pound. N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n • overvalued It still can be argued that Japanese shares are overvalued in terms of the return they offer. ? undervalued ADJ