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overreport verb[ T ] (alsoover-report)uk /ˌəʊvərɪˈpɔːt/us FINANCE, ACCOUNTING to say that you have done, earned, sold, etc. more than you really have: When preparing your taxes, don’t overreport capital gains or underreport capital losses. Compare
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over-reporting noun[ U ] They were accused of fraudulent over-reporting of profit.
Examples of overreport overreport Nevertheless, even given that children tend to overreport close friendships, a significant proportion of children from violent homes reported having no best friends. It is possible that 'stressed/distressed' staff tend to overreport while 'non-stressed/non-distressed' staff underreport conflict and aggression. These results suggest that women with unresolved loss tend to overreport their level of positive functioning and underreport their level of negative emotion and behavior in their family relationships. Some may overreport, others may underreport. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |