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What (who) is overmanned - definition
overmanned
If you say that a place or an industry is overmanned, you mean that you think there are more people working there or doing the work than is necessary.
Many factories were chronically overmanned.
= overstaffed
? undermanned
ADJ
Overmanner
·adv In an excessive manner; excessively.
overman
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Overman (disambiguation)
¦ verb (overmans, overmanning, overmanned) provide with more people than necessary.
¦ noun (plural overmen)
1. an overseer in a colliery.
2. Philosophy another term for superman. [translation of Nietzsche's Ubermensch.]
Examples of use of overmanned
1. This time the series is lost, but the medical situation at least gives Woodward a chance to wave two bandaged fingers at those who insist his Lions are overmanned.
2. Female soldier and six–year–old daughter in emotional embrace after Afghanistan tour The midlife crisis is a myth... it‘s the twentysomethings that are REALLY stressed Schoolgirl struck by alopecia loses all her hair – in just three days MORE NEWS BBC boss Mark Thompson defended job cuts that have caused outrage among staff by insisting the corporation is overmanned, it was revealed today.