overqualifying

Verb

overqualify (third-person singular simple present overqualifies, present participle overqualifying, simple past and past participle overqualified)

1. (transitive) 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. (transitive) 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