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The situation of having more workers employed than the work requires — the noun for the problem. You use it as an uncountable noun: serious overmanning, the problem of overmanning, to reduce overmanning in the industry. It is the same word-family as "overmanned", just as a thing rather than a description, and it sits in the same world: business pages, economics reports, arguments between companies and unions. British writing especially, and strongly by the 1970s and 80s, when "overmanning" was one of the standard complaints made about state-run industries — the coal mines, the docks, the railways. Because it names a problem, it almost always appears next to words like "tackle", "reduce", "cut", or "eliminate", and what follows in real life is usually redundancies. Modern writers more often say "overstaffing", which carries no "man" inside it. If you meet "overmanning" you will mostly meet it in older articles.
冗員（問題）、人力過剩的情況
組成over- + manning. "Manning" is the noun from "to man" — supplying a place with the people needed to run it (manning levels on a ship). With over-: supplying too many.
同家族的字
- overmannedthe adjective from the same root — a company that has this problem
- manpowersame 'man' meaning workers as a resource — the number of workers available
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。