overreachinggerundium / partizip präsens Used attributively and predicatively to describe excessive ambition or action beyond reasonable limits.
Übersetzungen
The company's overreaching ambitions led to its downfall.
Чрезмерные амбиции компании привели к её краху.
The overreaching authority of the manager caused discontent among the employees.
Превышающая полномочия менеджера вызвала недовольство среди сотрудников.
Zusätzliche Übersetzungen
Definitionen
Exceeding reasonable limits or boundaries, often in an ambitious or presumptuous manner. The company's overreaching goals led to financial strain and eventual downsizing.
Unconscionably or illegitimately extending legal authority or contractual power. The court deemed the waiver provision overreaching and struck it down.
Gerund: the act or instance of overreaching.
Definitionen
The act of exceeding reasonable limits, especially through excessive ambition. His overreaching during the negotiations alienated potential partners.
overreachgerundium / partizip präsens Used attributively to describe actions, regulations, etc., that exceed appropriate limits.
Definitionen
Exceeding appropriate or normal limits; excessively ambitious or intrusive. The court struck down the overreaching regulations as unconstitutional.