gold-plating
B2CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The practice of imposing requirements beyond those a directive minimally demands when transposing it.
Business groups complained of gold-plating in the national implementing regulations.
Business noun
Adding features or polish well beyond what the requirement calls for.
Stop gold-plating the dashboard; the client asked for a table, not an animation studio.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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