overcommit
/ˌoʊvərkəˈmɪt/
verb
- To promise to do more than one can realistically accomplish.
- He learned not to overcommit after he missed three deadlines in one week.
- If you overcommit to too many projects, you will feel stressed and rushed.
- She tends to overcommit by agreeing to help with every school event.
- To allocate more resources (such as time, money, or people) than are actually available.
- We overcommitted our volunteers, and not enough showed up for the cleanup.
- The manager warned the team not to overcommit their budget for the quarter.
- The company overcommitted its servers, causing the website to crash during the sale.
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