Crossword-Solution: OVERSOLD 8 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The house had been oversold; it was for the benefit of a local charity which besought Bok by wire after wire to keep a postponed date.

This number was oversold with a printed edition of two million copies--a record never before achieved by any magazine.

When this oversold condition of the contracting trades is realized, the prices of labor and of raw materials rise rapidly.

The rate charged for such stock loans is usually very small, but it sometimes happens that stock is “oversold” or the supply is limited, and in that case the “bear” may have to pay a round sum to obtain the shares he requires to complete his contracts.

Morally, I may say, there is not an atom of difference in the character of these two operations, unless it be found in the fact that the “bear,” the speculative seller, is on the average a man of wider intelligence than the “bull.” To the public and the market he is also by much the more valuable gambling animal of the two, because in proportion as a speculative account is oversold is the capacity of a market strengthened to resist shocks from bad news.