0 the offer or sale of more shares in a company than is allowed: --
Preventing overissue is the function of a corporation's registrar.
a fraudulent over-issue of shares
1 the production of too many banknotes (= paper money): --
2 to offer more shares in a company than is allowed: --
The investigation found that he had overissued railroad shares.
4 to sell more tickets for something than there are places, seats, etc. available: --
The panic of 1873, which prostrated all business, was the result of the excesses of the war, the overissue of legal tender and the feverish, unhealthy expansion that followed.
This, however, furnishes no adequate security against overissue.
Such provisions, however, amounted to little, because, much of the loans being simple credits, there was small inducement in the strong banks to overissue notes.
Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; -- said of currency.
The fundamental concern about inside money is the incentive to overissue.
