overclerked
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]overclerked (comparative more overclerked, superlative most overclerked)
- Having more clerks than is needed for the amount of work to be done.
- 1918, The Public - Volume 21, Part 2, page 1180:
- Other offices are notoriously overclerked.
- 1919, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, Nomination of John Skelton Williams, page 340:
- 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.