excessive use

excessive use
index abuse (corrupt practice), waste

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  • make excessive use of — index abuse (misuse) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • excessive use of intoxicating liquors — Such an indulgence in intoxicants as tends to impair the health or mental faculties of the insured, or to render the insurance risk more hazardous. 29 Am J Rev ed Ins § 775 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • use — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 using; being used ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, extensive, great, heavy, liberal ▪ full, maximum ▪ He made …   Collocations dictionary

  • excessive — excessive, immoderate, inordinate, extravagant, exorbitant, extreme are comparable when meaning characterized by going beyond or above its proper, just, or right limit. Excessive implies an amount, quantity, or extent too great to be just,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • excessive force — n. In criminal law, the unjustified use of force, determined by the circumstances. Webster s New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000 …   Law dictionary

  • excessive — adj. VERBS ▪ appear, be, seem ▪ become ▪ consider sth, regard sth as, see sth as ▪ He considered the level o …   Collocations dictionary

  • excessive — [[t]ɪkse̱sɪv[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe the amount or level of something as excessive, you disapprove of it because it is more or higher than is necessary or reasonable. ...the alleged use of excessive force by police... The… …   English dictionary

  • use force — do something with excessive strength, cause something to work by applying strength …   English contemporary dictionary

  • excessive force — Force which is unnecessary and unreasonable in the performance of an act otherwise lawful, such as the use of force in self defense so far beyond a necessity of the case as to appear vindictive. 6 Am J2d Asslt & B § 162. Force used in making an… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • drug use — Introduction       use of drugs for psychotropic rather than medical purposes. Among the most common psychotropic drugs are opiates ( opium, morphine, heroin), hallucinogens (LSD, mescaline, psilocybin), barbiturates, cocaine, amphetamines,… …   Universalium

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