1. 1人手過多、人員過多

    An overstaffed company, shop, hospital, or office has more workers than it needs. People are standing around; a smaller team could do the same work. Managers call a place overstaffed when they want to cut jobs or stop hiring. The opposite is understaffed — not enough people, everyone too busy. It is a workplace word, a little formal, more common in news and in offices than at the dinner table. You describe an organisation as overstaffed; you do not usually call one person overstaffed. Though actually, "too many staff" and "overstaffed" can hide a fight: the boss sees extra cost, the workers may see a team that finally has enough hands. It is not the same as overworked. Overworked means the people have too much work. Overstaffed means there are too many people.

組成over- (too many) + staff (the workers) + -ed (having that quality).

同家族的字

  • staffthe workers in a company, school, or office
  • understaffedthe opposite: not enough workers

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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:

  • overstaff

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。