overqualify

Definitions

1. To give excessive academic qualifications to.
   transitive
2. To modify, restrict or moderate (a statement, etc.) excessively.
   transitive

Examples

“[…] remember⟳ it is better to overqualify advisers than to make⟳ assumptions about their abilities.”

“I do have⟳ a tendency sometimes to overqualify what I am saying or labour the point⟳.”

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