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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.
人手過多、人員過多
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,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。