"overqualify" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From over- + qualify.",
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          "ref": "2001, Charles A. Jaffe, The Right Way to Hire Financial Help, 2nd edition, page 270:",
          "text": "[…] remember it is better to overqualify advisers than to make assumptions about their abilities.",
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        "To give excessive academic qualifications to."
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        "(transitive) To give excessive academic qualifications to."
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          "text": "I do have a tendency sometimes to overqualify what I am saying or labour the point.",
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        "To modify, restrict or moderate (a statement, etc.) excessively."
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        "(transitive) To modify, restrict or moderate (a statement, etc.) excessively."
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        "(transitive) To modify, restrict or moderate (a statement, etc.) excessively."
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