overregulate
verbEtymology From over- + regulate.
1
To regulate to a greater degree than appropriate.
- “It’s not a question of overregulating or underregulating.2008 March 20, Diana B. Henriques, “Commodities: Latest Boom, Plentiful Risk”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2021:
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