gold plate (English, verb)
expansion: gold plate (third-person singular simple present gold plates, present participle gold plating, simple past and past participle gold plated)
Senses:
glosses: To apply gold plate to an object, to plate with gold.
glosses: To incorporate costly or otherwise excessive features or refinements unnecessarily, to overengineer.
raw_tags: of projects
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
Forms:
form: gold plates
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gold plating
tags: participle
present
form: gold plated
tags: participle
past
form: gold plated
tags: past
form: gold-plate
tags: alternative