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Definition of overman in English: overmanverbovermanned, overmanning, overmans ˈəʊvəmanˌoʊvərˈmæn [with object]Provide with more staff than necessary. 给…配备过多人员 the company was vastly overmanned 公司员工大大超配。 Example sentencesExamples - Historic under-investment, endemic overmanning and antediluvian labour relations finally caught up with it just when it had a management least able to cope.
- Local authorities have become vast empires of superfluous activity, overmanned at taxpayers' expense.
- Australia's waterside workers (dockers, longshoremen) had a big defeat a few years ago when both business and government got tough on their overmanning practices and cut the wharf workforce drastically.
- The receiver had no problem identifying the fatal weaknesses; a slump in the market, overmanning, and massive premises which were costing a fortune to maintain.
- Out went artificial demarcation lines, overmanning and inflexibility.
- There is intriguing evidence of persistent overmanning, i.e. maintaining unproductive labour, well into the structural adjustment phase.
- If the rate is overmanned, then those Sailors who want to stay will be asked to take a look at other rates that aren't fully manned and then be provided the training opportunity to help them convert.
- For most of this period JNR suffered from overmanning and union disruption, whilst considerable investment had been made in new infrastructure.
- They encourage overmanning and a focus on the employee rather than the customer.
- The company is plainly overmanned, and that is the single biggest cost that needs to be tackled.
- Whatever the reason, public libraries were exempt until recently from the usual criticisms levelled at public services - that they are expensive to maintain, overmanned and generally inefficient.
- ‘A second cut against the King's Division of Northern England would be grossly disproportionate, very wasteful of highly trained infantrymen and lead to overmanning and redundancies.’
- Mr Jones said: ‘We have been overmanned in some departments.’
- Indeed, hiring people is so cheap in comparison to other costs, that workplaces tend to be quite shockingly overmanned.
- They've been made scapegoats because the fire station is overmanned.
- Amid a barrage of criticism from the public about featherbedding and overmanning, Hong Kong's civil service is being forced to streamline and reform.
- If they concentrate on personal banking they will meet up with the same cost pressures which the real banks have - largely as a result of rising costs of bank employees and overmanning.
- While the pace contingent is threadbare, the spin section is overmanned.
- Amongst these was overmanning, poor marketing knowledge, poor communications by road and rail and lack of modern manufacturing methods.
- It is time for a radical decentralisation programme for our vastly overmanned Civil Service.
nounPlural overmen ˈəʊvəmanˈoʊvərˌmæn 1An overseer in a colliery. 煤矿监工 Example sentencesExamples - The overmen have the charge of the working of the pit, and more especially of the safety of the men, whence their name.
- Then the overmen of the different pits came forward to shake hands with him, whilst the miners waved their caps.
- But they have fallen into the clutches of certain people not as desirable as the Yuppie overman.
- The grandest, the undermanagers, overmen, engineers and surveyors lived nearest the colliery in streets with names: Thompson, Grant, West View.
- He had mixed feelings therefore, about moving closer to home, as it might well mean going back on to the pick and shovel as there weren't many jobs going for overmen like himself.
- On my mother's side, the majority of the family working in the industry were officials, on the management side - senior colliery overmen and jobs of that nature.
Synonyms supervisor, overseer, superintendent, manager, boss, team leader, line manager, controller 2Philosophy
another term for superman Example sentencesExamples - This is the stuff of Nietzsche, in his declaration that ‘Man is a rope, fastened between animal and overman a rope over an abyss.’
- Since Zarathustra tells women that their greatest hope should be to bear the overman, Nietzsche is sometimes taken to exclude the concept of the noble woman.
- The overman is he who alone leads man to what he is: the being who surpasses himself, and in whose surpassing there is affirmed the necessity of his passing.
- Just over a century ago, Zarathustra came down from his solitary wanderings in the mountains and addressed the people thus: ‘I teach you the overman’.
- He had taught them about Nietzsche and his philosophy of the overman, a superior man who did not have to obey conventions and morals made for inferiors.
Definition of overman in US English: overmanverbˌōvərˈmanˌoʊvərˈmæn [with object]Provide with more people than necessary. 给…配备过多人员 the company was vastly overmanned 公司员工大大超配。 Example sentencesExamples - It is time for a radical decentralisation programme for our vastly overmanned Civil Service.
- While the pace contingent is threadbare, the spin section is overmanned.
- If they concentrate on personal banking they will meet up with the same cost pressures which the real banks have - largely as a result of rising costs of bank employees and overmanning.
- If the rate is overmanned, then those Sailors who want to stay will be asked to take a look at other rates that aren't fully manned and then be provided the training opportunity to help them convert.
- Historic under-investment, endemic overmanning and antediluvian labour relations finally caught up with it just when it had a management least able to cope.
- The receiver had no problem identifying the fatal weaknesses; a slump in the market, overmanning, and massive premises which were costing a fortune to maintain.
- Local authorities have become vast empires of superfluous activity, overmanned at taxpayers' expense.
- They encourage overmanning and a focus on the employee rather than the customer.
- Whatever the reason, public libraries were exempt until recently from the usual criticisms levelled at public services - that they are expensive to maintain, overmanned and generally inefficient.
- There is intriguing evidence of persistent overmanning, i.e. maintaining unproductive labour, well into the structural adjustment phase.
- The company is plainly overmanned, and that is the single biggest cost that needs to be tackled.
- They've been made scapegoats because the fire station is overmanned.
- Amid a barrage of criticism from the public about featherbedding and overmanning, Hong Kong's civil service is being forced to streamline and reform.
- Out went artificial demarcation lines, overmanning and inflexibility.
- Australia's waterside workers (dockers, longshoremen) had a big defeat a few years ago when both business and government got tough on their overmanning practices and cut the wharf workforce drastically.
- Amongst these was overmanning, poor marketing knowledge, poor communications by road and rail and lack of modern manufacturing methods.
- For most of this period JNR suffered from overmanning and union disruption, whilst considerable investment had been made in new infrastructure.
- ‘A second cut against the King's Division of Northern England would be grossly disproportionate, very wasteful of highly trained infantrymen and lead to overmanning and redundancies.’
- Indeed, hiring people is so cheap in comparison to other costs, that workplaces tend to be quite shockingly overmanned.
- Mr Jones said: ‘We have been overmanned in some departments.’
nounˈoʊvərˌmænˈōvərˌman 1An overseer. Example sentencesExamples - On my mother's side, the majority of the family working in the industry were officials, on the management side - senior colliery overmen and jobs of that nature.
- The overmen have the charge of the working of the pit, and more especially of the safety of the men, whence their name.
- The grandest, the undermanagers, overmen, engineers and surveyors lived nearest the colliery in streets with names: Thompson, Grant, West View.
- Then the overmen of the different pits came forward to shake hands with him, whilst the miners waved their caps.
- But they have fallen into the clutches of certain people not as desirable as the Yuppie overman.
- He had mixed feelings therefore, about moving closer to home, as it might well mean going back on to the pick and shovel as there weren't many jobs going for overmen like himself.
Synonyms supervisor, overseer, superintendent, manager, boss, team leader, line manager, controller 2Philosophy
another term for superman Example sentencesExamples - Since Zarathustra tells women that their greatest hope should be to bear the overman, Nietzsche is sometimes taken to exclude the concept of the noble woman.
- Just over a century ago, Zarathustra came down from his solitary wanderings in the mountains and addressed the people thus: ‘I teach you the overman’.
- The overman is he who alone leads man to what he is: the being who surpasses himself, and in whose surpassing there is affirmed the necessity of his passing.
- He had taught them about Nietzsche and his philosophy of the overman, a superior man who did not have to obey conventions and morals made for inferiors.
- This is the stuff of Nietzsche, in his declaration that ‘Man is a rope, fastened between animal and overman a rope over an abyss.’
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