hyperregulate

Regulate to an excessive degree; stifle with a plethora of rules.

Verb

  1. Regulate to an excessive degree; stifle with a plethora of rules.
    • If the FCC truly believes there are going to be plenty of broadband options soon, a “no-opoly,” why is the FCC planning to hyperregulate the local telcos' DSL spectrum and DSL offerings? - 2000: United States Congress...
    • Teens with insecure-dismissing states of mind, as well as those who hyperregulate/deactivate their attachment system and defensively exclude […] - 2005, Maryfrances Ruth Porter, The Exploration of Mechanisms Linking...
    • 2008: Gregory S. Parks [ed.], Julianne Malveaux [foreword], and Marc Morial [afterword], Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun, page 331 (University Press of Kentucky;...
  2. To regulate (salt content etc) to a greater than normal degree

Origin

From hyper- + regulate.

Forms

hyperregulates hyperregulating hyperregulated hyper-regulate

Related

hyperregulation hyperregulative hyperregulator hyperregulatory hyporegulate