Overreach is associated with exceeding certain powers, beyond what is tolerable.
Overreach is the act and result of overreaching . The notion of overreaching, meanwhile, refers to exceeding a certain limit .
Exceeding powers
Generally, a person who exceeds his or her limits exceeds his or her use of certain rights , powers , or powers . The concept is also linked to an abuse of another individual's generosity .
Overreach, therefore, is linked to exceeding certain powers that someone has due to their position or position , authorization, etc. For example: “There are historians who believe that, in that period, there was an excess of the armed forces in their functions,” “The governor's proposal implies an excess of what the laws guarantee, since he is not authorized to take that type of determinations” , “The lawyer considered that an excess of the Executive Branch is being recorded” .
With respect to the three examples just presented, we can say that it is not uncommon for armies to have acted beyond their limits throughout history , causing death and destruction in their wake. A governor who craves rights beyond the legal ones is also common, and the same can be said of the excesses of the Executive Branch.
Beyond the competition
The idea of overreach usually appears when an authority tries to go beyond its competence , exaggerating its power . Take the case of the coach of a football team. This professional has the obligation to control the discipline of the players in the club and is authorized to make decisions so that individual behaviors do not affect sporting performance. But if he orders footballers to cut their hair or not get tattoos, to mention two possibilities, he will have incurred an excess of his duties : hair and tattoos have no impact on professionalism.
Unfortunately, it is not uncommon in the world of large corporations for top executives to overreach when it comes to interacting with employees below their rank. A football team, especially if it is in the national league or one of great international prestige, is not so different from a company, since money and political interests are equally intertwined in both cases. And it is precisely because of these elements that more than once these lack of respect, these abuses are forgiven, because those who receive them do not want to lose the privileges that their job grants them.
The army and overreach are two concepts that usually go hand in hand.
Abuse of confidence
Whoever abuses the trust of another also goes too far. Suppose that a man who goes on vacation gives the keys to his house to a neighbor so that, from time to time, he can water the plants and check that everything is fine. The neighbor, however, starts checking the objects, tidies up the house and even throws away what he thinks is no longer useful. There is, therefore, an overreach because the owner of the property did not give his endorsement for that type of actions.
In this case, since this is a situation typical of an informal relationship, we can also use expressions from everyday speech to describe the neighbor's attitude . For example, we could say that "he crossed the line," which also has the nuance of going beyond what can or should be tolerated. Of course, this limit is not usually determined expressly, but rather it is assumed that both parties know it simply because they are adults who belong to the same society. The owner of the house, in this way, trusts that his neighbor will not do more than what he expressly asks of him, simply because that is how he should behave .