overclassification

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ classification.

Noun

overclassification (usually uncountable, plural overclassifications)

  1. Excessive classification.
    • 2009 March 23, “They Can’t Tell You”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 June 2025:
      According to the bill’s sponsor, Representative Steve Driehaus, Democrat of Ohio, there were 362,000 F.O.I.A. requests last year, and almost a third of them still remain to be processed because of overclassification.
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