overage









overage


adjective

  1. beyond the acceptable or desired age: overage for the draft.
  2. older than usual or expected for the activity, position, etc.: an overage baseball player who still outperforms many rookies.
  3. too old to be serviceable; antiquated: She drives an overage car.

noun Commerce.

  1. an excess supply of merchandise.
  2. the value of goods in excess of the amount called for by stock records; money in excess of the amount called for by sales records.

adjective

  1. beyond a specified age

n.“a surplus amount,” 1945, a banking term, coined from over on model of shortage.

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