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- noun business
excessive management ;micromanagement
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Examples
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Their overmanagement of financial resources — in short, their greed — makes them unsympathetic to the Dashwoods.
Money, Matrimony, and Memory: Secondary Heroines in Radcliffe, Austen, and Cooper 2006
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He talked of the overmanagement of the world, and among other things of the laws that would not let a poor simple idiot, a “natural,” go at large.
A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006
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Your records and accounts are a marvel, and you maintain order and discipline without excessive force or overmanagement.
Cadmian's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006
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He talked of the overmanagement of the world, and among other things of the laws that would not let a poor simple idiot, a
A Modern Utopia 1906
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The Atlantic world boomed unexpectedly while the East was gridlocked and the Third World hobbled by ideologically based overextension and overmanagement, too arteriosclerotic to withstand the stress of reform.
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He decries the general "box-ticking" of the Labour government - "the interference and new initiatives … there's an overmanagement, and also a mismanagement, in certain areas" - but believes Labour have been good for the arts.
The Guardian World News Emine Saner 2010
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If I was in the chair, I would start with the administration building, all the paper they waste, all the overmanagement and overhead and cut it to the bone.
LJWorld.com stories: News < 2010
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A significant part of future growth in Saudi Arabia will come from small- and medium-sized businesses that are still constrained by the government’s overmanagement of the economy.
The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006
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A significant part of future growth in Saudi Arabia will come from small- and medium-sized businesses that are still constrained by the government’s overmanagement of the economy.
The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006
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A significant part of future growth in Saudi Arabia will come from small- and medium-sized businesses that are still constrained by the government’s overmanagement of the economy.
The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006
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