overstaff

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To furnish with too many staff. transitive
    — "Thankfully, we were overstaffed, both the day shift and evening shift," said Francis Englert of the Red Cross New York chapter.

词形变化

overstaffs present,singular,third-person overstaffing participle,present overstaffed participle,past overstaffed past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English staff
English overstaff
From over- + staff.
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