Overissue

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Overissue

An excess of issued shares over authorized shares.

Overissue

A situation in which a company issues more shares than it has authorized shares.

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On November 7, 1945, just three months after Japan surrendered, the authorities had adopted a special deposit program to absorb Japanese notes that had been overissued under the Japanese government.

Multiple Regime Shifts and Multiple Ends of the Taiwanese Hyperinflation, 1945-1953

The Company's Board of Directors has ratified the issuance of the Overissued Shares.

iParty Corp. Announces Preferred Stock and Warrant Corrections

Whereas the quantitative test, sheared of its inventory proviso, stated that money and credit cannot be overissued when they move one-for-one with the value of real output, the qualitative test assures that this outcome is automatically achieved when banks lend only on real bills--in other words, when loan expansion goes 100 percent to finance working capital needs and 0 percent to finance fixed capital investment and stock market speculation.