overclerked

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English

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Etymology

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over- +‎ clerk +‎ -ed

Adjective

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overclerked (comparative more overclerked, superlative most overclerked)

  1. 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.