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overworked
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Being subjected to too much work
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overwork \O`ver*work"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overworked or Overwrought ; p. pr. & vb. n. Overworking .] To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse. To fill too full of work; to crowd ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES overworked and underpaid ▪ Teachers are overworked and underpaid . EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ overworked teachers ▪ I'd been six months without any holiday, and I was tired and overworked . ▪ Teachers often complain ...
Usage examples of overworked.
His labors were of the greatest value to the overworked head of the Aldine es-tablishment, and Aldus always recognized his debt of gratitude.
The split in his forehead had been cleaned and patched by an overworked resident in the Hennepin County Medical Center ER, where gangbangers were regularly patched up or zipped into body bags.
A continuous cordon of jovial but overworked policemen, including some from Italy, France and Germany since the numbers of the tiny Swiss force were simply not up to the task, maintained a clear zone two hundred meters wide between the rapidly growing crowd and the perimeter fence, while on the lakeward side a flotilla of police launches scurried to and fro to keep at bay an armada of boats, yachts and craft of every description.
He shook his head and silently gave thanks to her overworked, underappreciated guardian angel.
The administrators were, for the most part, not cruel people, merely underfunded and overworked.
The assignment was given to an overworked and underpaid technician whose job was to communicate with one of the astronavigators, and translate his instructions into code for the onboard computers on the three spacecraft.
The overworked tailors of Savile Row learned to make burnooses, and at Epsom Downs, camel races came into vogue after the Queen set the tone with an entry of her own.
Good, wholesome food, plainly cooked and served, provides its own digestives and brings joy to that so frequently overworked organ, the stomach.
Here she is, overworked and underpaid, buried alive under manuscripts and query letters.
Tiberius never gave his men a smile o a word of praise and often overmarched and overworked them.
The doctor, who was way overworked, even admitted that had Florence been seen right away, and had a stitch put in her cervix, she would have kept the baby.
Aunt Alma knows that it annoys Father when anyone says we don’t look well, so she said: "Why, Dora looks quite overworked.
Lincoln, any instance where overworked cavalry has performed more labor than mine since the battle of Antietam, I am not conscious of it.
Elaine Brusen face-to-face, decided that she looked at least as haggard as he did, and besides that, more overworked.
It seemed like it might be handy to have a cluricaune around the joint: whenever I got too overworked, I could slip him a wink and my problems would.