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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overspecify .
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Examples
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Your standards can be any and all of: de facto, de jure, intellectual property encumbered, easily implemented, impossible to implement, underspecified, overspecified, [...]
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The black Macbook is beautiful as well as the Aluminium Macbook pro, but the latter may be a bit overspecified and expensive… Good luck deciding, this blog might make it actually more difficult to decide!
Fantasising 2006
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Probably overspecified for the kind of fluorescent ceiling fixtures he guessed the garage was going to use.
One Shot Child, Lee 2005
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The value loss is always greater on an overspecified trim level, like a Titanium with the smallest petrol engine (Drivethedeal quotes £12,350 for the 1.6 Zetec).
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Employing an IT consultant to advise on the construction of a datacentre may not prevent it being overspecified and underused, …
Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2009
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Employing an IT consultant to advise on the construction of a datacentre may not prevent it being overspecified and underused, …
Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2009
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