overqualify
verbEtymology From over- + qualify.
1
To give excessive academic qualifications to.
- […] remember it is better to overqualify advisers than to make assumptions about their abilities.2001, Charles A. Jaffe, The Right Way to Hire Financial Help, 2nd edition, page 270:
2
To modify, restrict or moderate (a statement, etc.) excessively.
- I do have a tendency sometimes to overqualify what I am saying or labour the point.2003, Linda Papadopoulos, Malcolm Cross, Robert Bor, Reporting in Counselling and Psychotherapy, page 59: