Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To supply with too many employees.
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- verb To furnish with too many
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Etymologies
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Examples
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I would contend that McDonalds and Burger King * artificially* overstaff many restaurants to provide jobs as a form of community service.
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Hooker says he doesn't overstaff projects but benefits from lower turnover.
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Hooker says he doesn't overstaff projects but benefits from lower turnover.
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However, the tendency to overstaff also micro-hydro stations is a problem.
1. BASIC APPROACH a) Cost-Benefit-Approach for Socio-Economic Selection 1985
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The only reason you overstaff a ship is so you have personnel redundancy in case you take battle casualties.
Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982
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In terms of keeping our workforce size appropriately, we will keep our plans slightly overstaffed or overstaff to a level that we think we could respond very rapidly if physicians want this new paradigm starts to take hold.
unknown title 2011
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• Departments frequently overstaff checkpoints with officers, all earning overtime.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Ryan Gabrielson 2010
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• Departments frequently overstaff checkpoints with officers, all earning overtime.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Ryan Gabrielson 2010
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• Departments frequently overstaff checkpoints with officers, all earning overtime.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Ryan Gabrielson 2010
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• Departments frequently overstaff checkpoints with officers, all earning overtime.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Ryan Gabrielson 2010
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