overdefer

English

Etymology

Verb

overdefer (third-person singular simple present overdefers, present participle overdeferring, simple past and past participle overdeferred)

To defer a larger amount than one should.
- 1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Federal Estate and Gift Taxes:
  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.
- 1983, Journal of Taxation of Investments - Volume 1, page 302:
  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.
- 1996, Wisconsin. Department of Workforce Development, Bulletin:
  Employees who will overdefer because 1997 has 27 paydays will have their deductions decreased automatically by WDC.
To be overly deferential.
- 1987, The Scientist - Volume 1, Issues 4-27, page 24:
  The analysis overdefers to government regulation and it understates the power of existing risk controls.
- 1998 June, Monroe Friedman, “No one is always right, including the customer: Comments on "The Customer Is Not Always Right"”, in Journal of Business Ethics, volume 17, number 8:
  There are occasions when consumers are overdeferred to for the sake of more business.
- 2017, Harvard Law Review: Volume 130, Number 8:
  More troublingly, the history above strongly suggests that these structural biases in fact routinely pushed courts to overdefer to police judgment.