Examples of overmanned

• Why were the mills overmanned?

• They are overmanned, yet they are filthy and repairs are left undone.

• The agricultural population had political clout, and the industry was seriously overmanned.

• At the same time as a large number of our industries are overmanned, newer industries are screaming for skilled labour.

• Over wide areas, they have been profligate, overmanned and inefficient.

• Generous compensation has been paid to dockers to leave an industry that was overmanned.

• The old nationalised telephone network was grotesquely inefficient; it was hugely overmanned, for instance.

• It is easy enough to say that the papers are vastly overmanned, that people have to be dropped or there has to be voluntary retirement.