overclassification

noun

overclassification

noun

Etymology From over- + classification.

1

Usually Excessive classification.

According to the bill’s sponsor, Representative Steve Driehaus, Democrat of Ohio, there were 362,000 F.O.I.A. requests last year, and almost a third of them still remain to be processed because of overclassification.2009 March 23, “They Can’t Tell You”, in New York Times:

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