gold plate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gold plates
form: gold plating
form: gold plated
form: gold plated
form: gold-plate
Senses: glosses: To apply gold plate to an object, to plate with gold.
examples: text: Some communities gold-plate their subdivision ordinances because they know that developers, rather than the local voters, are paying.
ref: 1991, Advisory Commission on Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing, “Regulatory Barriers in the Suburbs”, in Thomas H. Kean, Thomas Ludlow Ashley, editors, Not in My Back Yard: Removing Barriers to Affordable Housing:, DIANE Publishing, published 1993, →ISBN, Excessive Subdivision Controls, page 2-8:
text: To help reduce the “sticker shock,” stick to what we really need and do not gold plate the requirements.
ref: 2001, Walter Edward Hammond, Design Methodologies for Space Transportation Systems, volume 1, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, →ISBN, page 771:
text: Exceed expectations. This sounds contradictory to the earlier advice not to accept extra or unnecessary tasks and not to gold plate requirements, but it is not.
ref: 2008, Wayne Turk, Common Sense Project Management, American Society for Quality, →ISBN, Chapter 10: An Introduction, Continued Project Management 101, Part 2, page 59:
glosses: To incorporate costly or otherwise excessive features or refinements unnecessarily, to overengineer.
raw_tags: of projects
examples: text: I do not think that we gold plate European regulations although I think others, insurers and other industry bodies, may gold plate on our behalf.
ref: 2006, House of Lords, quoting Bill Callaghan, Government Policy on the Management of Risk: 5th Report of Session 2005-06, Volume II: Evidence, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, 17 January 2006 - Mr Bill Callaghan and Mr Geoffrey Podger; Q276, page 84:
text: Devolved administrations in individual jurisdictions can always choose to gold plate requirements by doing more than a treaty of directive requires, subject to the constitutional provisions under which they were created.
ref: 2008, Simon Marsden, Strategic Environmental Assessment in International and European Law: A Practitioner's Guide, Earthscan, →ISBN, Part II - European Law, Chapter 12 Comparisons and Conclusions, page 282:
text: In order to find our whether the UK tends to gold plate (and double bank) more than other EU countries – as was suggested by some commentators – the Davidson Review adopted a multi-stage approach.
ref: 2009, Wim Voermans, edited by Henk Snijders and Stefan Vogenauer, Content and Meaning of National Law in the Context of Transnational Law, Sellier. European Law Publishers, →ISBN, Gold-Plating and Double Banking: an Overrated Problem?, page 84:
text: For example the packaging directive was gold plated in transposition.
ref: 2010, Organisation of Economic Co-Operation and Development, “The interface between members states and the European Union”, in Better Regulation in Europe: Netherlands 2010, OCED Publishing, →ISBN, page 116:
qualifier: regulations; etc; regulations; etc
glosses: To embellish, to extend beyond its intended scope, especially so as to become stifling, or rigid and inflexible.
raw_tags: of laws