overregulation
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From over- + regulation.
Noun
[edit]overregulation (countable and uncountable, plural overregulations)
- Excessive regulation: too many rules, especially misguidedly conceived ones.
- Hypernym: regulation
- Coordinate terms: deregulation, underregulation
- 2012 February 22, Jack Ewing, “In Germany, a Limp Domestic Economy Stifled by Regulation”, in The New York Times[1]:
- 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.