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/ˌoʊvərkəˈmɪtmənt/ · o·ver·com·mit·ment
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- The state of having pledged or allocated more time, resources, or obligations than can be realistically fulfilled. The project's failure was traced to the team's overcommitment of staff to multiple simultaneous deadlines.
- Excessive dedication to a cause, relationship, or activity that leads to neglect of other responsibilities. Her overcommitment to volunteer work left little time for her own family.
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Did you know? The term gained particular traction in computer‑science circles in the 1990s to describe allocating more virtual memory to a process than the physical RAM could actually support.