overhire
overhire verb: to hire too many employees.
Verb
overhire (third-person singular simple present overhires, present participle overhiring, simple past and past participle overhired)
- 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
- “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
Forms of overhire
| third-person singular present | overhires |
|---|---|
| present participle | overhiring |
| past participle | overhired |
| past | overhired |
| alternative form | over-hire |
Origin of overhire
From over- + hire.
Questions about overhire
- What does overhire mean?
- Overhire means to hire too many employees.
- What part of speech is overhire?
- Overhire is a verb.
- What is the past tense of overhire?
- The past tense of overhire is overhired.
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