1 doing too much work: --
He got sick through overwork.
2 to work or make a person or animal work too hard or too long: --
4 the act of working too hard or too much: --
Stress and overwork are blamed for high levels of absenteeism.
Once again, he insists that sympathy for communism, while certainly present, has been greatly overworked as an explanation for what these men did and did not do.
Everyone is overworked in this business.
Proponents of this approach would ask, for example, if some clinical departments are overworked and understaffed, prompting them to cut corners in coding and billing to save time.
Experts in the taxonomy of tropical plants are scarce and frequently overworked, so in naming their notoriously inadequate collections the herbarium provides the best hope to ecologists.
In fact this picture may be overworked.
The judiciary is officially independent, but it is poorly trained, overworked and easily compromised.
Workers had to be attentive to avoid overworking the valuable oxen that were reared for meat.
Such issues include mistreatment of medical students by their mentors, overworking house staff, and the failure to disclose mistakes to patients.
