overdefer

From over- +‎ defer.

overdefer (third-person singular simple present overdefers, present participle overdeferring, simple past and past participle overdeferred)

1. To defer a larger amount than one should.
   • 1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Federal Estate and Gift Taxes:

     Thus it is important to be realistic about the supposed revenue loss, because very quickly estate planners would become realistic and would stop overdeferring their client's taxes.

   • 1983, Journal of Taxation of Investments - Volume 1, page 302:

     If the tax planner overdefers expenses into a later year, the taxpayer may be in an AMT position in that year since the regular tax will be significantly impacted by the additional deductions.

   • 1996, Wisconsin. Department of Workforce Development, Bulletin:

     Employees who will overdefer because 1997 has 27 paydays will have their deductions decreased automatically by WDC.

2. To be overly deferential.
   • 1987, The Scientist - Volume 1, Issues 4-27, page 24:

     The analysis overdefers to government regulation and it understates the power of existing risk controls.

   • 1998 June, Monroe Friedman, “No one is always right, including the customer: Comments on "The Customer Is Not Always Right"”, in Journal of Business Ethics, volume 17, number 8:

     There are occasions when consumers are overdeferred to for the sake of more business.

   • 2017, Harvard Law Review: Volume 130, Number 8:

     More troublingly, the history above strongly suggests that these structural biases in fact routinely pushed courts to overdefer to police judgment.