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Overregulation

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Etymology

From over- + regulation.

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