overclerked

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adjective

Having more clerks than is needed for the amount of work to be done.

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Meanings

adjectiveoverclerked (comparative more overclerked, superlative most overclerked)

comparative more overclerked · superlative most overclerked

  1. Having more clerks than is needed for the amount of work to be done.

    Other offices are notoriously overclerked.

    1918, The Public - Volume 21, Part 2, page 1180
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    Country banks are rarely if ever overclerked, and they have been seriously burdened by the extra work they have had to assume of various kinds.

    1919, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, Nomination of John Skelton Williams, page 340

Origin

From over- + clerk + -ed.

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Chicago

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