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overstep /əʊvəˈstɛp /verb (oversteps, overstepping, overstepped)Pass beyond or exceed (a limit or standard): you must not overstep your borrowing limit he has overstepped the bounds of acceptable discipline...- Last week he turned down a request by the opposition for the convening of parliament in defiance of the president, saying he ‘can not overstep the limits’ of his powers.
- But the defence still wants some of the items disqualified, claiming that investigators overstepped the limits of the search warrant.
- In some ways, however, it was the court's majority that was in danger of overstepping the limits of its power.
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