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- verb transitive To
control to too great a degree.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Trying to overcontrol trade -- whether food or information -- can lead to isolationism and dangerous political climates.
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Furthermore, the control stick's range of motion had to be restricted to 10% of normal or the rat neurons would overcontrol and crash the simulator.
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Birthday treats - is an example of district overcontrol.
Anne Z. Boxer: Boulder Valley School Board Election: Okay, Let Them Eat Cake 2009
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To make things worse, Leo's overcontrol fosters a weakness in others that creates more neediness.
Phyllis F. Mitz: Ask Phyllis...Astrology and Beyond: Guilt-Laden Leo 2009
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He said that instructors could calm down pilots having trouble with formation flight by teaching them to fly with their fingertips to avoid overcontrol.
Orbit John J. Nance 2006
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In short, we overcontrol and expect too much in certain areas while underguiding and expecting too little in others.
What's wrong with a parent? Ann Althouse 2006
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He said that instructors could calm down pilots having trouble with formation flight by teaching them to fly with their fingertips to avoid overcontrol.
Orbit John J. Nance 2006
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Each plan shall address ways to reduce overcontrol and micromanagement that now generate "red tape" and hamper efficiency in the Federal Government.
Memo On Government Reform Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1993
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Also, there is a constant tension due to the need for sustained and coordinated command and control, and the need to avoid overcommand and overcontrol.
FM 7-98 Chapter 5 - Peacetime Contingency Operations United States Army 1992
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Books such as the much-lauded Crisis in Command claim that a failure of leadership created the military's difficulties, with no mention of political overcontrol and its effect on the erosion of discipline.
The Draft 1980
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