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Definition of Overregulate
1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overregulate
Literary usage of Overregulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Societal Value of Geologic Maps by Richard L. Bernknopf (1994)
"For this application, we assume that a regulator will be conservative (will have
a tendency to overregulate) in his approach to this issue ..."
2. Managing Industrial Solid Wastes from Manufacturing, Mining, Oil and Gas by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"As discussed above (see "The Subtitle C Universe"), these approaches may exclude
some wastes that should be regulated as hazardous and may overregulate ..."
3. The Essence of Hayek by Friedrich August Hayek, Chiaki Nishiyama (1984)
"It was claimed in Chapter 8 that governments in poor countries also vastly
overregulate their economies and, in the process, slow economic growth. ..."
4. The OECD Report on Regulatory Reform by Joanna R. Shelton (1997)
"However, governments must also be cautious not to overregulate sectors exhibiting
network effects, eg electronic commerce, which could impede technology ..."
5. Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy edited by Fred Thompson (1999)
""Americans are familiar with the tendency to overregulate in other areas. What is
different with secrecy is that the public cannot know the extent or the ..."
6. Data Needs for Food Policy in Developing Countries: New Directions for by Joachim Von Braun (1993)
"Thus, only some of the problems uncovered reflect deliberate concealment—a legacy,
in part, of regimes that overregulate petty trade. ..."
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