ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Overregulation

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Overregulation is a noun meaning Excessive regulation: too many rules, especially misguidedly conceived ones.

Meaning

Excessive regulation: too many rules, especially misguidedly conceived ones.

Example Sentences

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.

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Related dictionary entries include gold-plating, overenforcement, overlegislation, overcontrol, overrestriction, overlegalization.

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