overhire

present singular third person overhires · participle present overhiring · participle past overhired · past overhired · alternative over-hire

1. intransitiveTo hire too many employees.

   “It is now clear to me that we over-hired,” he wrote. A Coinbase spokesman declined to comment.

   2022 June 14, David Yaffe-Bellany, Erin Griffith, quoting Brian Armstrong, “‘The Music Has Stopped’: Crypto Firms Quake as Prices Fall”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   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.

   2009 April 8, Claire Cain Miller, “Start-Up Gets Course in Survival”, in New York Times