overregulate
To regulate to a greater degree than appropriate.
Verb
- To regulate to a greater degree than appropriate.
- “It’s not a question of overregulating or underregulating. - 2008 March 20, Diana B. Henriques, “Commodities: Latest Boom, Plentiful Risk”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2021:
Hypernyms: regulate
Coordinate Terms: deregulate underregulate
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English regulate English overregulate From over- + regulate.