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overdefer en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + defer.

Meanings

1. To defer a larger amount than one should.
   • Thus it is important to be realistic about the supposed revenue loss, because very quickly estate planners would become realistic and would stop overdeferring their client's taxes. 1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Federal Estate and Gift Taxes:
   • Employees who will overdefer because 1997 has 27 paydays will have their deductions decreased automatically by WDC. 1996, Wisconsin. Department of Workforce Development, Bulletin:
   • If the tax planner overdefers expenses into a later year, the taxpayer may be in an AMT position in that year since the regular tax will be significantly impacted by the additional deductions. 1983, Journal of Taxation of Investments - Volume 1, page 302:
2. To be overly deferential.
   • There are occasions when consumers are overdeferred to for the sake of more business. 1998 June, Monroe Friedman, “No one is always right, including the customer: Comments on "The Customer Is Not Always Right"”, in Journal of Business Ethics, volume 17, number 8:
   • More troublingly, the history above strongly suggests that these structural biases in fact routinely pushed courts to overdefer to police judgment. 2017, Harvard Law Review: Volume 130, Number 8:
   • The analysis overdefers to government regulation and it understates the power of existing risk controls. 1987, The Scientist - Volume 1, Issues 4-27, page 24:

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