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overclerked

overclerked adjective: having more clerks than is needed for the amount of work to be done.

Adjective

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
    • 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

Forms of overclerked

comparativemore overclerked
superlativemost overclerked

Origin of overclerked

From over- + clerk + -ed.

Questions about overclerked

What does overclerked mean?
Overclerked means having more clerks than is needed for the amount of work to be done.
What part of speech is overclerked?
Overclerked is an adjective.

Words near overclerked in the dictionary

  1. overclear
  2. overcleared
  3. overclearing
  4. overclears
  5. overclerk
  6. overclerked
  7. overclerks
  8. overclever
  9. overcleverness
  10. overclimb
  11. overclimbed

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