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Overqualify

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To give excessive academic qualifications to. transitive

    "[…] remember it is better to overqualify advisers than to make assumptions about their abilities."

  2. 2
    To modify, restrict or moderate (a statement, etc.) excessively. transitive

    "I do have a tendency sometimes to overqualify what I am saying or labour the point."

Etymology

From over- + qualify.

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