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Meaning of overhire | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To hire too many employees.

intransitive

Examples

“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.”
““It is now clear to me that we over-hired,” he wrote. A Coinbase spokesman declined to comment.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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