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overregulation

noun

Etymology

From over- + regulation.

  1. borrowed from regulatus
  2. suffixed as regulation — “regulate + ion”
  3. formed as overregulation — “over- + regulation”

Definitions

  1. Excessive regulation

    Excessive 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA