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over-hire

over-hire is the alternative form of overhire.

Meaning of overhire

Verb

overhire (third-person singular simple present overhires, present participle overhiring, simple past and past participle overhired)

  1. (intransitive) To hire too many employees.
    • 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

Forms of over-hire

third-person singular presentover-hires
present participleover-hiring
past participleover-hired
pastover-hired

Questions about over-hire

What is over-hire the alternative form of?
Over-hire is the alternative form of overhire.

Words near over-hire in the dictionary

  1. over-heat
  2. over-heated
  3. over-heating
  4. over-heats
  5. over-hedging
  6. over-hire
  7. over-hired
  8. over-hires
  9. over-hiring
  10. over-illumination
  11. over-indebtedness

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