0 having more employees than are needed
1 → overstaffed
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.