oversignal

English

Etymology

over- + signal

Verb

oversignal (third-person singular simple present oversignals, present participle oversignaling or oversignalling, simple past and past participle oversignaled or oversignalled)

  1. To signal excessively.
    • 1997, American Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings of the Annual Meeting
      Thus an employer who truly plans to stay around may have to "oversignal" with incentive systems that are too expensive for those who plan to cut and run []
    • 2009, Debra Hawhee, Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language (page 25)
      By invoking the metaphor of a semaphore, Burke marks the ability of an operatic performance to signal strongly — even to oversignal — and to do so in a stiff, exaggerated way, as with flags on sticks.

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