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Definition of Overstaffed
1. overstaff [v] - See also: overstaff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstaffed
Literary usage of Overstaffed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1897)
"On the other hand, if the trunks are overstaffed, loss arises in clerical wages.
The latter is, perhaps, the less serious item of the two, more especially ..."
2. Reviews of National Policies for Educationby Centre for Co-operation with Non-members by Centre for Co-operation with Non-members (2001)
"... education and training institutions are currently overstaffed and inefficient.
One aim of reform is to increase this ratio from around 1:12 to 1:16. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"... even at the cost of being overstaffed on slack days, until the difficulty ha5
been solved by new organisation and machinery, as such difficulties always ..."
4. Authority in the Modern State by Harold Joseph Laski (1919)
"... at a time when it is claimed by M. Clemenceau that they are all overstaffed.43 The
problem of pensions is no more than a variation upon a similar theme. ..."
5. Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions by William D. Compton (1996)
"On the other hand, if the program did not materialize as planned, the astronaut
corps would be overstaffed and many aspiring space explorers would have ..."
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