overregulation

[oh-ver-reg-yuhl-ay-shuhn]

noun

1. the act, fact, or result of regulating an industry, sport, etc., excessively or too restrictively.

Example Sentences

Admitting that green neuroses and general overregulation of everything are responsible for the decline of Europe’s steel industry would be embarrassing for Brussels.

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While adjusting to rapid economic changes, European leaders are also still reeling from when Vance gave them a stern rebuke at the Munich security conference in February, when he warned against overregulation and advocated listening to all corners of the political spectrum — including Germany’s far-right party.

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Co-founder and CEO of Tesla Elon Musk has had a hostile relationship with the state in recent years, accusing California of “overregulation, overlitigation, overtaxation.”

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Chris Farmer, CEO of SignalFire, a venture capital and technology firm based in San Francisco, told the ABC affiliate there that antitrust laws, higher taxes and overregulation have held back progress.

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She’d have to be eager to deal with homelessness, the housing shortage, street crime, overregulation, a perpetual water shortage and the annual hassle of balancing a volatile state budget fed by an outdated tax system that should have been modernized years ago.

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