0 past simple and past participle of overcompensate
1 to try too hard to correct a problem, therefore creating a new problem:
Deviations in a few cases are overcompensated by the large amount of distance constraints.
To some uncertain extent, negligent net beneficiaries will be overcompensated, while net contributors, who have gained by foresight and hard work rather than by brute good luck, are overtaxed.
As if aware of an unfashionable lack of intellectual toughness, the editor has overcompensated by throwing in a couple of heavy philosophical pieces at the end.
Some larger metropolitan authorities will be overcompensated and other authorities will be undercompensated, so the net cost should be little, if any.
It means that if the chance event never happens, the plaintiff is overcompensated, but if it does happen he is under-compensated, sometimes to a very high degree.
However, my group believes that in some instances the rapporteur has overcompensated for this and extended the scope of the directive far beyond what was intended or, indeed, desired.
There was, however, no such queue when the pound was weak and farmers were overcompensated to the tune of £100 million per year on average between 1992 and 1996.
Maybe it was that he knew he was redundant, so he overcompensated.
