overregulation

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ regulation.

Noun

overregulation (countable and uncountable, plural overregulations)

  1. Excessive regulation: too many rules, especially misguidedly conceived ones.
    Hypernym: regulation
    Coordinate terms: deregulation, underregulation
    • 2012 February 22, Jack Ewing, “In Germany, a Limp Domestic Economy Stifled by Regulation”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      It was a lesson in how, despite its vaunted industrial sector, the German economy suffers from some of the same overregulation and sclerosis usually associated with much more troubled European countries.
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