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overuniform en · ADJ

Etymology

From over- + uniform.

Meanings

1. Too uniform; not sufficiently varied.
   • Throughout the 1990s, the Japan Business Federation and Japanese Association of Business Executives advocated deregulation and decentralization to what they saw as an over-uniform and centralized education system. 2008, Keith A Nitta, The Politics of Structural Education Reform:
   • It is some pleasure to command, were it but a mole-hill, and a delight to be obaied. But it is a pleasure over-uniforme and languishing. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.9:
   • For all those weary of an overuniform world, that realization is surely cause for a measure of rejoicing. 2013, Philippe Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture, page 143:

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