Overregulation
noun
noun ·6 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Excessive regulation: too many rules, especially misguidedly conceived ones. countable, uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From over- + regulation.
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