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overqualify en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + qualify.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To give excessive academic qualifications to.
   • […] remember it is better to overqualify advisers than to make assumptions about their abilities. 2001, Charles A. Jaffe, The Right Way to Hire Financial Help, 2nd edition, page 270:
2. (transitive) To modify, restrict or moderate (a statement, etc.) excessively.
   • I do have a tendency sometimes to overqualify what I am saying or labour the point. 2003, Linda Papadopoulos, Malcolm Cross, Robert Bor, Reporting in Counselling and Psychotherapy, page 59:

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