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US
/ˈoʊvɝˌʃut/
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[ UK /ˌəʊvəʃˈuːt/ ]
[ UK /ˌəʊvəʃˈuːt/ ]
NOUN
- an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt
VERB
-
aim too high
The plan overshoots its aim - shoot beyond or over (a target)
How To Use overshoot In A Sentence
- The plan overshoots its aim
- This means that if you decide to follow this meter, you'll typically overshoot your target (especially deadly on short par 3 holes) or you'll undershoot badly (really painful on putts when you have to make par).
- The department may overshoot its cash limit this year.
- The team found that in the previous two decades industrial society had gone into overshoot - the term environmental scientists use for a population of living things that is consuming vital resources so extravagantly that the ability of their environment to keep supporting them is at risk. P2P Foundation
- Late start and overshooting the stipulated time limit appear to be a thing of the past.
- PI controller made the respond speed faster and the overshoot less.
- He had mechanical problems which forced him to make four bike changes, and then he crashed for a second time, overshooting a bend and tumbling into the undergrowth.
- The only viable option was to curtail current spending to meet the new economic conditions and to adjust to the overshoot of the last two years.
- Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland is probably the single weirdest graphic novel I've ever enjoyed (there's weirder stuff out there, but it overshoots enjoyability). Boing Boing
- Even then, admits one of the organisers, all the food is tinned because buying fresh fruit and vegetables would overshoot the budget of around £6 per parcel.