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overregulating

overregulating is the present participle and gerund of overregulate.

Meaning of overregulate

Verb

overregulate (third-person singular simple present overregulates, present participle overregulating, simple past and past participle overregulated)

  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

Questions about overregulating

What is overregulating the present participle and gerund of?
Overregulating is the present participle and gerund of overregulate.

Words near overregulating in the dictionary

  1. overregularizes
  2. overregularizing
  3. overregulate
  4. overregulated
  5. overregulates
  6. overregulating
  7. overregulation
  8. overregulations
  9. overrehearsed
  10. overreject
  11. overrejection

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