overworked
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3.5
- adjective
- /ˌoʊvərˈwɜrkt/
:
sobrecargado de trabajo
- After months of tight deadlines, she realized she was overworked and needed a break.
- overworked and underpaid
- feel overworked
- already overworked
The staff needs to be paid, not overpaid, but not underpaid and not overworked, but not underworked.
- The staff needs to be paid, not overpaid, but not underpaid and not overworked, but not underworked.
- I find that chronic stress, sleep deprivation, poor diet, all of that leads to an endocannabinoid system that's being overworked and can't keep up.
- And so social workers are overworked and underpaid and so kids are not always taken care of in the best manner.
- Yeah, I don't know that K pop groups are overworked, baseball players overworked, no database off.
Examples
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The bulky manuscript sat on the overworked agent's living room table until her husband, Serge, perused it one evening.
Academic text (2002) -
I'm Polly, the overworked and underpaid social worker.
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Are you overworked and stressed out?
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I'm overworked at the moment.
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Underpaid and overworked, heard it all before.
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Everybody's so overworked around here.
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Not too surprisingly, this theory has proven to be very popular with many overworked managers.
Academic text (1996) -
And so social workers are overworked and underpaid and so kids are not always taken care of in the best manner.
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You really are overworked.
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Much of the attention has focused on the impact on postdoctoral fellows, the overworked, underpaid backbone of the academic research enterprise.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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4.4
Very tired after doing too much work for a long time
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5.1
Feeling too much stress and unable to cope
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4.4
You have too much work and not enough time
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5.3
Having more work, duties, or worry than you can handle
Very tired because of too much work or travel
Antonyms
How Overworked
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overworked comes from the parts over- meaning 'too much' and work, so it can also describe a person who has done too much work and now feels very tired or stressed.