overregulate

To regulate to a greater degree than appropriate.

Verb

  1. 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.

Forms

overregulates overregulating overregulated

Related

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