0 past simple and past participle of overcompensate --
1 to try too hard to correct a problem, therefore creating a new problem: --
Secondly, the insurer is entitled to recover from the insured up to the amount which the insurer has paid to the insured and by which the insured is overcompensated.
If the corrective factors were disregarded and the individual overcompensated, then an inferiority complex would occur, fostering the danger of the individual becoming egocentric, power-hungry and aggressive or worse.
Maybe it was that he knew he was redundant, so he overcompensated.
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.
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.
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.
Some larger metropolitan authorities will be overcompensated and other authorities will be undercompensated, so the net cost should be little, if any.
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.
