overregulate
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overregulate (third-person singular simple present overregulates, present participle overregulating, simple past and past participle overregulated)
- To regulate to a greater degree than appropriate.
- Hypernym: regulate
- Coordinate terms: deregulate, underregulate
- 2008 March 20, Diana B. Henriques, “Commodities: Latest Boom, Plentiful Risk”, in New York Times[1]:
- “It’s not a question of overregulating or underregulating.