"overdefer" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "over- + defer",
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      "form": "overdeferring",
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          "ref": "1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Federal Estate and Gift Taxes",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1983, Journal of Taxation of Investments - Volume 1, page 302",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1996, Wisconsin. Department of Workforce Development, Bulletin",
          "text": "Employees who will overdefer because 1997 has 27 paydays will have their deductions decreased automatically by WDC.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To defer a larger amount than one should."
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          "ref": "1987, The Scientist - Volume 1, Issues 4-27, page 24",
          "text": "The analysis overdefers to government regulation and it understates the power of existing risk controls.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "There are occasions when consumers are overdeferred to for the sake of more business.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Harvard Law Review: Volume 130, Number 8",
          "text": "More troublingly, the history above strongly suggests that these structural biases in fact routinely pushed courts to overdefer to police judgment.",
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        "To be overly deferential."
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          "deferential",
          "deferential"
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  "etymology_text": "over- + defer",
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      "form": "overdefers",
      "tags": [
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "overdeferring",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "overdeferred",
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      "form": "overdeferred",
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          "ref": "1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Federal Estate and Gift Taxes",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Journal of Taxation of Investments - Volume 1, page 302",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "text": "Employees who will overdefer because 1997 has 27 paydays will have their deductions decreased automatically by WDC.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To defer a larger amount than one should."
      ],
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          "ref": "1987, The Scientist - Volume 1, Issues 4-27, page 24",
          "text": "The analysis overdefers to government regulation and it understates the power of existing risk controls.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "There are occasions when consumers are overdeferred to for the sake of more business.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Harvard Law Review: Volume 130, Number 8",
          "text": "More troublingly, the history above strongly suggests that these structural biases in fact routinely pushed courts to overdefer to police judgment.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To be overly deferential."
      ],
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