ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Overauthor

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Overauthor is a verb meaning To add too many names to the list of authors on a work produced by a team.

Meaning

To add too many names to the list of authors on a work produced by a team.

More Meanings

  1. To continue revising a work past the point where the revisions improve the work.

Example Sentences

Overauthoring and Failure to Acknowledge
Caught between the plan and the non-plan the city-as-text vacillates between being overauthored and unauthored.
In most cases, it is better to "overauthor" in team publications than to "underauthor", to include an individual if there is.
In 1817, which marks the first appearance of The Ancient Mariner as a work by Coleridge, the poem is, by contrast, almost overauthored.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overannotate, overcode, overwrite, overbrand, overtag, overtitle.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does overauthor mean?

Overauthor means To add too many names to the list of authors on a work produced by a team.

How do you use overauthor in a sentence?

Overauthoring and Failure to Acknowledge

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