overlend

verb

over·​lend ˌō-vər-ˈlend 

overlent ˌō-vər-ˈlent  ; overlending

intransitive verb

: to lend too much money

Investors, who believed in the safety of bonds, and borrowers, who trusted that no one would overlend to them, incurred all the risk.

—Louis Hyman

overlending noun

… the U.S. housing meltdown, much of which was caused by overlending and applicants not even having to file proof of income.

—Susan Pigg

Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above