overdefer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To be overly deferential.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Employees who will overdefer because 1997 has 27 paydays will have their deductions decreased automatically by WDC."
- "The analysis overdefers to government regulation and it understates the power of existing risk controls."
- "There are occasions when consumers are overdeferred to for the sake of more business."
- "More troublingly, the history above strongly suggests that these structural biases in fact routinely pushed courts to overdefer to police judgment."
Etymology
From over- + defer.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over