Meanings
nounoverregulation (countable and uncountable, plural overregulations)
plural overregulations
- countableuncountableExcessive regulation: too many rules, especially misguidedly conceived ones.
It was a lesson in how, despite its vaunted industrial sector, the German economy suffers from some of the same overregulation and sclerosis usually associated with much more troubled European countries.
2012 February 22, Jack Ewing, “In Germany, a Limp Domestic Economy Stifled by Regulation”, in The New York Times
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Germanic*uber
- Old Englishofer-
- Middle Englishover-
- Englishover-
- Englishregulation
- Englishoverregulation
From over- + regulation.
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