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overhire

verb

Etymology

From over- + hire.

  1. derived from *kewHs-✻
  2. inherited from *hūzijaną✻
  3. inherited from *hūʀiju✻ — “payment”
  4. inherited from hȳr — “employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent”
  5. inherited from hire
  6. prefixed as overhire — “over + hire”

Definitions

  1. To hire too many employees.

    • He borrowed from Sequoia’s presentation and told the staff that Jive needed to conserve cash, make swift and deep cuts and invest based on results instead of ahead of them, as they had when they overhired.
    • “It is now clear to me that we over-hired,” he wrote. A Coinbase spokesman declined to comment.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA