Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To exploit to the point of diminishing returns; to use excessively.
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- verb To
utilize too much.
Etymologies
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Examples
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• Creating health savings accounts for teachers and other state employees, which would give them incentive not to "overutilize" their health insurance;
unknown title Patricia C. McCarter 2009
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One of the most pervasive myths in debates over health care reform is that of moral hazard the idea that when access to health care is unrestricted, patients "overutilize" health services in wasteful and inefficient ways.
Corrente 2008
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That was because they couldn't afford care - excuse me, I mean, because they didn't "overutilize."
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Burr/Coburn Medicare Plan: 10 Deceptions - And A Free-Market "Death Panel" RJ 2012
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All people will either overutilize or underutilize the healthcare system ... no one will get it perfect ... all things considered, I'd rather err on the side of caution and have people somewhat overconsume in this area.
Finkelstein on Health Insurance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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That was because they couldn't afford care - excuse me, I mean, because they didn't "overutilize."
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Burr/Coburn Medicare Plan: 10 Deceptions - And A Free-Market "Death Panel" RJ 2012
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When we embrace the multitude of healing modalities available to us all, medicine will no longer need to overprescribe dangerous drugs and overutilize high-tech diagnostics simply because it has nothing else to offer.
Larry Malerba, D.O. : What Is the 'Green' Medicine Revolution? (Part III) 2010
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When we embrace the multitude of healing modalities available to us all, medicine will no longer need to overprescribe dangerous drugs and overutilize high-tech diagnostics simply because it has nothing else to offer.
Larry Malerba, D.O. : What Is the 'Green' Medicine Revolution? (Part III) 2010
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When we embrace the multitude of healing modalities available to us all, medicine will no longer need to overprescribe dangerous drugs and overutilize high-tech diagnostics simply because it has nothing else to offer.
Larry Malerba, D.O. : What Is the 'Green' Medicine Revolution? (Part III) 2010
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It is the patriotic duty of all conservatives and libertarians to overutilize all public systems in a socialist government, not only to regain that which has been unjustly confiscated, but precisely because it immanentizes its unavoidable eschaton.
Dana Milbank would like Sarah Palin to stop fighting and accept defeat graciously. Ann Althouse 2008
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As they advance through school, like Pedro, they are apt to overutilize clues from sentences, engaging in a guessing game in which they gloss over some of the words due to their incomplete perceiving of the language sounds; they then strive to supply those missing words based on what would make sense.
A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002
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