excessing

excessing
 n.β€” Β«At the end of the school year, a committee led by one of Warley’s alleged protΓ©gΓ©s met to discuss moving some of its employees to other schoolsβ€”a process called β€œexcessing’ β€”because J.O. Wilson was over its budget.Β» β€”β€œHigh Court Ruling on Age Discrimination Decides Juror Rights Case” Blog of Legal Times Aug. 21, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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