overwidth

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Etymology[edit]

over- +‎ width

Adjective[edit]

overwidth (comparative more overwidth, superlative most overwidth)

  1. Wider than is standard or (transport, law, of a vehicle) wider than is allowed.

Noun[edit]

overwidth (uncountable)

  1. (transport, law, of a vehicle) An excess of width.
    • 1976, Acts of the Legislature, volume 1, Louisiana, page 445:
      [] and shall pay not only the amount of the permit fee for overlength, overheight, overwidth or overweight as might be due, but an additional civil penalty of fifty dollars for the first offense, one hundred dollars for the second offense and one hundred fifty dollars for each additional offense; []

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