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- verb transitive To
claim too much.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He suggests he doesn; t want to "overclaim" on the NHS.
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Creative managers could hide expenses and overclaim revenues and auditors would be SOL
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· It should be a criminal offence to knowingly overclaim - just as it is a criminal offence to knowingly overclaim benefits.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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And I'm sorry, but an £8,000 overclaim on a mortgage can never really be 'an honest mistake' unless there was some desperate incompetence at play from Clare Short.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jeff 2009
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And I'm sorry, but an £8,000 overclaim on a mortgage can never really be 'an honest mistake' unless there was some desperate incompetence at play from Clare Short.
MacKay falls Short of a true resignation Jeff 2009
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· It should be a criminal offence to knowingly overclaim - just as it is a criminal offence to knowingly overclaim benefits.
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Hannah DennyNew Richmond, WisconsinYour article tumbles into the trap that legal scholar Stephen Morse calls the "brain-overclaim syndrome" — the trendy tendency to "explain" human behavior by pointing to brain circuits that light up while we're behaving.
Turkey and the EU 2008
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Don't fake it; don't overclaim; don't trivialize where it is this product this round (ph) fit in people's lives.
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SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: I'll tell you what we know -- and I don't want to overclaim here because, in fact, we've got different reports throughout the course of the day.
Background Briefing On The Violence In The Mideast ITY National Archives 2000
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One is -- and I don't think it applies, though, we've got to be careful; I don't want to overclaim.
Health Care Discussion With Small Business Owners ITY National Archives 1994
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