0 to fail by trying to achieve, spend, or do more than you can manage:
2 the act of doing more than your authority allows:
Courts act as a safeguard against executive overreach in individual counter-terrorism cases.
Already there are signs of regulatory overreach.
3 an injury to a horse's foot caused by the foot reaching too far forward when the horse is moving:
State health authorities are overreaching their authority.
The Supreme Court ruled that the FDA had overreached its authority.
When a court overreaches its bounds and decides to legislate from the bench, it's pretty hard to overturn that.
Advocates for illegal immigrants condemned the DNA collection as an overreach by the government.
There's a real danger of overreach ," says Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University
The Democrats on Capitol Hill recognise the risks of overreach.
His abuse of power finding was the result of an "overreach" by the investigator who went beyond "the intent of the original" inquiry.
