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Definition of Overmanning
1. overman [v] - See also: overman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overmanning
Literary usage of Overmanning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Russia Today by Clyde Lyndon King, Thomas Warner Mitchell, Carl Kelsey (1922)
"This is because a drop in sales will result in expensive overmanning and overmanning,
in addition, will immediately depress the earnings of salespersons if ..."
2. The Regional Dimension of Unemployment in Transition Countries: A Challenge by Stefano Scarpetta, Andreas Wörgötter (1995)
"Even after the structural adjustment, overmanning in Poland was estimated in 1993
at some 1 million to 1.5 million persons (with open unemployment in the ..."
3. Energy policies of IEA countries by Iea, International Energy Agency (1999)
"Immediate causes were the conversion of state capital subsidies into debt, bad
investments, overmanning and controlled prices for coal. By the end of 1992, ..."
4. Germany by Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine), Orlando Williams Wight, Friedrich Max Müller (1861)
"... that slumbers in it is called forth, and flowers and foliage, as of old, are
springing on its bleakest wildernesses and overmanning its sternest cliffs. ..."
5. Power, Competition, and the State by Keith Middlemas (1986)
"Meanwhile the process of concentration and the spread of automation in factories
exposed both the overmanning and the restrictive practices which employers ..."
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