Definition of overstep
transitive verb
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Examples of overstep in a Sentence
the principal overstepped her authority in ordering everyone to remain in the unheated school
Recent Examples of overstep from the Web
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Trustee Al Paveza said that the village needs to be careful not to overstep its boundaries.
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But AT&T and others, such as cable provider Spectrum, argued the city had overstepped its authority.
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In a New York Times interview on Wednesday, Trump warned Mueller not to overstep his investigative boundaries by poking into Trump’s byzantine business transactions.
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Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, who shares Mr. Kaczynski’s nationalist leanings, said that Brussels had overstepped its bounds.
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CNN's Ron Brownstein wrote recently about why one-party rule doesn't usually last long in this country in recent years; because the in-power party oversteps its bounds and energizes the other side.
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That vindicates what has always been the real charge: not that the Russians swayed the election, a claim that is impossible to verify, but that Mr Trump’s team overstepped the bounds of propriety, and maybe the law (see article).
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Prosecutors appealed and prevailed, with the Maryland Court of Appeals determining Howard overstepped his authority.
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Constables have overstepped their bounds sometimes.
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First Known Use of overstep
before 12th century
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Definition of overstep for English Language Learners
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: to go beyond what is proper or allowed by (something)
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