Word Meanings - OVERDRAFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of overdrawing; also, the amount or sum overdrawn.

Related words: (words related to OVERDRAFT)

• OVERDRAW
  To make drafts upon or against, in excess of the proper amount or limit. (more info) 1. To exaggerate; to overdo.
• AMOUNT
  L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See 1. To go up; to ascend. So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser. 2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come in the aggregate or
• TANTAMOUNT
  Equivalent in value, signification, or effect. A usage nearly tantamount to constitutional right. Hallam. The certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin. De Quincey.
• CATAMOUNT
  The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.
• PARAMOUNT
  Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preëminent; as, a paramount duty. "A traitor paramount." Bacon. Lady paramount , the lady making the best score. -- Lord paramount, the king. Syn. Superior;
• PARAMOUNTLY
  In a paramount manner.