Usually means: Possessing more skills than required.
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  1. overqualified: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overqualified: Merriam-Webster
  3. overqualified: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overqualified: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overqualified: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Overqualified, overqualified: Wordnik
  7. overqualified: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overqualified: Wiktionary
  9. overqualified: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overqualified: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. overqualified: Dictionary.com
  12. Overqualified (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. overqualified: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. overqualified: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Having too many qualifications to be deemed appropriate for a (usually unskilled) job.

Similar:
hyperqualified, over-educated, overeducated, overcapable, overemployed, overproficient, overlicensed, overclerked, overresourced, overleveled, more...

Opposite:
underqualified, unqualified, inexperienced



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Similar:
hyperqualified, over-educated, overeducated, overcapable, overemployed, overproficient, overlicensed, overclerked, overresourced, overleveled, more...

Opposite:
underqualified, unqualified, inexperienced



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