Definition of "overmanning" [overmanning]

• Present participle of overman. (verb)

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• "It has taken about 18 months for private sector employment to stabilise - with the caveats that you set out - but no one has addressed the excessive and expensive overmanning of the public sector and the inevitable job losses this ought to entail."
• "Then we might no longer see BBC employees swanning off to the Genocide Olympics at a ratio of 1.46 for every British competitor – overmanning being one of its notorious faults and much of its internet presence which has little to do with its broadcasting remit being slashed."
• "And our latest visitation here from the BBC would prefer to attempt to justify the grotesque overmanning and Spanish practices at the BBC than address the blatant bias in everyday output from Pravda."