3 to create rules and laws that are considered unnecessary or unhelpful, especially when making European Union rules into national laws:
He said they should understand that when they gold-plate employment rights, they ultimately destroy jobs and prosperity.
The current system encourages them to over-build and gold-plate airport facilities.
Our cuff-style bracelet comes in five different metals - copper, silver plate, gold plate, sterling silver, and 14-carat gold.
The jewellery is pretty and affordable, made of faux gems and inexpensive metals like silver and gold plate.
Other items in the collection include a gold plate and diamond-studded spoon made for the maharajas of Jaipur.
Massive cupboards covered an entire wall, all stuffed with silver and gold plate.
Silver jewellery that has been gold plated can still tarnish.
They gold-plate the spacecraft's instruments to assist with thermal control.
She rejected fears that smaller companies were placed at a competitive disadvantage by Whitehall's tendency to "gold-plate" - be over-zealous - in implementing European regulation.
He says the pharmaceutical industry has to gold-plate its systems to meet US Food and Drug regulations.
