overclassification
English
editEtymology
editFrom over- + classification.
Noun
editoverclassification (uncountable)
- Excessive classification.
- 2009 March 23, “They Can’t Tell You”, in New York Times[1]:
- According to the bill’s sponsor, Representative Steve Driehaus, Democrat of Ohio, there were 362,000 F.O.I.A. requests last year, and almost a third of them still remain to be processed because of overclassification.