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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of overcompensate.
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Examples
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Auditors said Rhone was "overcompensated" for his duties.
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"overcompensated" if their suit is allowed to go forward because actions are under way in Antigua and Dallas that could result in them getting their money back.
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Then again, one could argue Russia has taken the "high road" at exactly the wrong time and has overcompensated in its resistance, because refusing to even condemn Assad goes beyond reason.
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But the focus on public employees -- and the accompanying narrative that they're greedy and overcompensated -- obscures a lot of that: It makes it seem as if the decisions that have to be made are easy and costless and can be shunted onto an interest group that some of us, at least, don't like.
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Either they will overcompensate already overcompensated executives, or create new jobs.
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Giving more money to "overcompensated executives" isn't as good: adding savings to banks isn't going to make them lend as much as reducing the toxicity of the mortgage-backed securities.
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But even if the system is not perfect, we must reject misleading uses of data that perpetuate the myth that Federal employees are as a whole overcompensated.
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He overcompensated for his insecurities with sex to feed his ego which feeds his narcissism.
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They netted a mere 20 points, and confronted with a score that she clearly thought to be preposterous, Lacey overcompensated on air with a burst of crazy-pants laughter and some vamping and some winking that showed what a judge and jury and 22 million viewers would call "no remorse."
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As a result, a very small change in consumption in the U.S. and Europe has to be overcompensated by a huge increase in consumption in China, and that is going to be very difficult to do, especially considering that the Chinese currency is kept at artificially low levels.
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