Definition of Overregulating

1. Verb. (present participle of overregulate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overregulating

1. overregulate [v] - See also: overregulate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overregulating

overreckoned
overreckoning
overreckons
overred
overreds
overrefine
overrefined
overrefinement
overrefinements
overrefines
overrefining
overregarded
overregulate
overregulated
overregulates
overregulating (current term)
overregulation
overregulations
overrehearsed
overrelax
overrelaxation
overrelaxations
overrelaxed
overrelaxes
overrelaxing
overreliance
overreliances
overreliant
overren
overrens

Literary usage of Overregulating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Managing Industrial Solid Wastes from Manufacturing, Mining, Oil and Gas by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"... disincentives that would impede development of the Nation's energy resources.6 Congress was also concerned about overregulating wastes as hazardous and ..."

2. Internet Tax Freedom Act: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, U.S edited by W. J. Tauzin (1997)
"We should be very wary of overregulating this medium. We need to recognize it is the very absence of such regulation which has contributed to its explosive ..."

3. Religion Among American Men (1920)
"The machinery of evangelism—the signing of pledge cards—and the overregulating of practical ministrations, have both been criticized. ..."

4. Water Rights Reform: Lessons for Institutional Design by Bryan Randolph Bruns, Claudia Ringler, Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick (2005)
"... on its investment in a water system is through overregulating water quality. 4. A substantial body of work on agency theory exists within economics. ..."

5. Global Growth of Technology: Is America Prepared? a Working Conference edited by George Mulholland, John Fassett, Charles Ehrlich (1996)
"I want to point out that, at a time when big government is being blamed for waste and for overregulating industry, if managed care draws most of our ..."

6. Preparing for Climate Change: Proceedings, Second North American Conference (1993)
"... we should have learned about the dangers of overregulating an environmental problem. I say this not only as an individual who earns his living doing ..."

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