overreach

6 definitions • 11 examples

to fail by trying to achieve, spend, or do more than you can manage:

The housing meltdown hurt high-risk borrowers who overreached.

In the flush of success, he overreached.

Don't go too far and overreach yourself.

Companies that overreach themselves soon find themselves in debt.

to make a bigger claim than is reasonable:

Those doing sound science don’t overreach, knowing that their methodology will be replicated and their results tested.

to do more than your authority allows:

Some officials charged that the investigators had overreached their authority.

It was a warning to the Florida court not to overreach its powers.

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.

the act of making a bigger claim than is reasonable:

To say "Organizations will be forced to pay for procedures they morally oppose" is clearly an overreach.

an injury to a horse's foot caused by the foot reaching too far forward when the horse is moving:

He was in the lead when he suffered an overreach and had to retire.