overworkverb [ I or T ]
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈwɜːk/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɝːk/to (cause someone to) work too much:
You look exhausted - I hope they're not overworking you.
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Work, working and the workplace
- a long way to go idiom
- act as sth 1
- act as sth
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) idiom
- assignment
- cabin
- hold down a job idiom
- hoop
- hot desk
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- labour
- slouch
- spadework
- stroke
- sweat
- sweat over sth
- swing into action idiom
- temp
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overworknoun [ U ]
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈwɜːk/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɝːk/doing too much work:
He got sick through overwork.
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- clerk
- honorary
- lackey
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- probation
- professionally
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- sweated
- wilderness
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