MEANING
To report a greater amount or higher frequency than actually exists or occurred.
Use it for
describing self-reports that overstate activity; identifying inflated recorded quantities; explaining why reported frequency may exceed actual frequency; distinguishing upward reporting bias from real prevalenceSpecifies upward reporting error, as distinct from a genuinely high rate or inaccurate reporting of another kind. Writing functions: Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- overreport participation
- overreport physical activity
- overreport the number of
On the page
Participants may overreport exercise when the questionnaire makes an active lifestyle seem especially desirable.
Duplicate submissions caused the dashboard to overreport attendance.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- overreport
- Past tense
- overreported
- Past participle
- overreported
- Present participle
- overreporting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- overreport
- Present continuous
- am/is/are overreporting
- Present perfect
- have/has overreported
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been overreporting
- Past
- overreported
- Past continuous
- was/were overreporting
- Past perfect
- had overreported
- Past perfect continuous
- had been overreporting
- Future
- will overreport
- Future continuous
- will be overreporting
- Future perfect
- will have overreported
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been overreporting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Transitive: overreport, overreports, overreported, overreported, overreporting; future will overreport. Also over-report; the hyphenated spelling is an alias. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common in research contexts (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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