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  • verb Present participle of overstaff.

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Examples

  • Fidel recalled the overstaffing in the hospitals and the successful struggle to reduce this personnel.

    CASTRO ON RECTIFICATION, WASTE OF RESOURCES 1988

  • The reorganization follows last year's discovery of an unexpected $6 million budget shortfall in Land Use Services, which county officials attributed to poor management - namely overstaffing - amid plunging revenues.

    Victorville Daily Press : Natasha Lindstrom 2010

  • Balzer earlier told the committee his department was working with the National Treasury and the department of public service and administration on this "overstaffing" problem.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • "overstaffing" may be saved, through a further cutback in the working week, voluntary redundancies, and a measured reduction in outsourcing.

    YBW News 2009

  • Giving “insiders”—workers and managers—too much control is often thought to slow restructuring and prompt excessive wages and overstaffing.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Giving “insiders”—workers and managers—too much control is often thought to slow restructuring and prompt excessive wages and overstaffing.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Giving “insiders”—workers and managers—too much control is often thought to slow restructuring and prompt excessive wages and overstaffing.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Giving “insiders”—workers and managers—too much control is often thought to slow restructuring and prompt excessive wages and overstaffing.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The bit near the beginning on the problem in the parks department – overstaffing, no one showing up for work, lost money, poor controls, no process – particularly resonate with me.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » San Francisco: Progressive Paradise or Bankrupt Banana Republic? 2009

  • The Gurkhas have managed to cut back some of their numbers since the changes to their terms and conditions, but there is still a large overstaffing because of over-recruitment," said one Whitehall source."

    Defence cuts: Gurkhas and RAF take brunt 2011

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