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  • verb transitive, intransitive To teach too much.

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over- +‎ teach

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Examples

  • For the professors, the basic idea is that we overteach economics to students and thus don't get the basic principles across to them during their one introduction to the subject.

    The Austrian Economists: 2005

  • For the professors, the basic idea is that we overteach economics to students and thus don't get the basic principles across to them during their one introduction to the subject.

    The Mystery of the Mundane - The Austrian Economists 2005

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