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词汇 overwork
释义 overwork
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈwɜːk/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɝːk/
to (cause someone to) work too much: (使)劳累过度,(使)工作太累
You look exhausted - I hope they're not overworking you.你看起来疲惫极了——我希望他们没有让你过于劳累。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Work, working and the workplace
act as something
all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom
assignment
bandh
be at workidiom
grind
hoop
hotelling
housekeeping
in the line of dutyidiom
induction
industry
job
moonlight
slave
slog
slouch
spadework
subtask
sweat
overwork
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈwɜːk/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɝːk/
doing too much work: 工作过度,过分劳累
He got sick through overwork.他因劳累过度而病倒了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Types of employment
admin
administrative
administrative assistant
administratively
at the coalfaceidiom
job-share
job-sharing
jobbing
jobless
joblessness
professionality
qualified
recertify
redundancy
redundant
well qualified
WFH
white-collar
who's whoidiom
wilderness yearsidiom

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overwork | American Dictionary


overwork
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˌoʊ·vərˈwɜrk/
to work or make a person or animal work too hard or too long:
[ T ]She overworks her staff.

overwork


noun[ U ]us/ˈoʊ·vərˌwɜrk/
Her headaches are likely caused by overwork.

overworked


adjectiveus/ˌoʊ·vərˈwɜrkt/
I feel overworked and underpaid.

overwork | Business English


overwork
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˌəʊvəˈwɜːk/us
HR
to work too much or cause someone to work too much:
The union says they are overworking us to the point where our health is affected.
She had been overworking and needed a vacation.

overworked


adjective
Nurses feel overworked and underpaid.
Overworked employees are taking more sick days.
overwork
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈəʊvəwɜːk/ us /ˈoʊvɚwɝːk/
HR
the act of working too hard or too much:
Stress and overwork are blamed for high levels of absenteeism.

Examples of overwork


overwork
The list of words overworked or misused - and not by students alone - is inexhaustible.
Many rural farmers find that their land is either becoming too costly to keep as rents increase, or perhaps overworked so losing its fertility.
When tenure isn't enough: overworked and unhappy, a tenured professor decides she wants out.
Many feel overworked and underappreciated, which causes them to resent their wives.
Drug-dependent persons, overworked counselors, and under funded administrators have more pressing problems to deal with.
The doctors say, that it is caused by overworking, by mental overexertion.
The very elaborated exhibition spaces seemed inflexible and overworked, again more of a labyrinth than an enjoyable spatial progression.
Such issues include mistreatment of medical students by their mentors, overworking house staff, and the failure to disclose mistakes to patients.
Workers had to be attentive to avoid overworking the valuable oxen that were reared for meat.
The judiciary is officially independent, but it is poorly trained, overworked and easily compromised.
In fact this picture may be overworked.
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.
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.
Everyone is overworked in this business.
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.
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