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Meaning of "overmanning" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERMANNING

overmanning  [ˌəʊvəˈmænɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERMANNING

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overmanning is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OVERMANNING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overmanning in the English dictionary

The definition of overmanning in the dictionary is the act of supplying with an excessive number of men.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERMANNING


banning
ˈbænɪŋ
canning
ˈkænɪŋ
caravanning
ˈkærəˌvænɪŋ
inspanning
ɪnˈspænɪŋ
Manning
ˈmænɪŋ
outmanning
ˌaʊtˈmænɪŋ
overplanning
ˌəʊvəˈplænɪŋ
panning
ˈpænɪŋ
planning
ˈplænɪŋ
scanning
ˈskænɪŋ
suntanning
ˈsʌnˌtænɪŋ
tanning
ˈtænɪŋ
undermanning
ˌʌndəˈmænɪŋ
unmanning
ʌnˈmænɪŋ
vanning
ˈvænɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERMANNING

overman
overmanage
overmanned
overmannered
overmantel
overmany
overmast
overmaster
overmatch
overmatter
overmature
overmaturity
overmeasure
overmedicate
overmedication
overmelt
overmen
overmerry
overmighty
overmild

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERMANNING

award-winning
cleaning
cunning
dinning
dunning
family planning
fanning
free-running
grinning
inning
long-running
pinning
running
spanning
spinning
stunning
thinning
tunning
up and running
urban planning
winning

Synonyms and antonyms of overmanning in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overmanning» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERMANNING

Find out the translation of overmanning to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of overmanning from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overmanning» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

冗员
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

exceso de plantilla
570 millions of speakers

English

overmanning
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

overmanning
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

overmanning
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

раздувание штатов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

excedentário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

overmanning
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sureffectifs
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Overmanning
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Überbesetzung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

過剰人員
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

overmanning
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overmanning
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

overmanning
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

overmanning
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ओव्हरमाईंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

overmanning
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

esuberi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

overmanning
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

роздування штатів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

overmanning
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πλεονάσματος εργατικού δυναμικού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

overmanning
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

övertalighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overtallighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overmanning

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERMANNING»

The term «overmanning» is used very little and occupies the 179.455 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERMANNING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «overmanning» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «overmanning» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overmanning

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERMANNING»

Discover the use of overmanning in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overmanning and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
An Introduction to Ecological Psychology
Chapter 8 OVERMANNING: THEORY AND RESEARCH In Chapter 5, we considered some of the consequences that undermanned behavior settings have for their occupants. Undermanning was contrasted with a maximally efficient, ...
Allan W. Wicker, 1984
2
Environmental Psychology
Barker (1960) theory of undermanning was extended by Wicker, McGarth and Armstrong (1973) through a construct overmanning. Overmanning setting was defined as those in which the number of eligible participants exceeds the personal ...
Dinesh Nagar, 2006
3
Construction Productivity: A Practical Guide for Building ...
PREVIOUS STUDIES ON OVERCROWDING,OVERMANNING, AND SITE DENSITY As mentioned, overcrowding is the increase of all labor types within a given construction work area. Overcrowding uses the percent increase of all trades, ...
Eddy M. Rojas, 2008
4
NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1989
Typically, although for reasons not well understood, unions negotiate over manning levels rather than employment directly, which is left to the discretion of management (see Oswald and Turnbull 1985). An overmanning requirement has two ...
Olivier J. Blanchard, Stanley Fischer, 1989
5
Understanding and Quantifying the Impact of Changes on ...
Except Waldron (1968) and the US Army Corps of Engineers (1979), the studies on overmanning impact seem to have obtained and used original data sets. But most of them do not provide sufficient information about the source data.
Seulkee Lee, 2007
6
Controlling Soviet Labour: Experimental Change from Brezhnev ...
This again gives some idea of the level of overmanning and the degree of negative control exercised by the Soviet workforce, even after an experiment explicitly designed to reduce this. This does not deny that the experiment's success ...
Bob Arnot, 1988
7
Structural & Construction Conf
These total to 41.73 days of work, which is not acceptable. 9 DURATION DESIGN BY OVERMANNING We need to consider the duration improvements we can achieve by using overmanning (OM) and overtime (OT). Let us first consider the ...
Franco Bontempi, 2003
8
A Study of the Soviet Economy
plans, and that for some branches the figure was as high as 25 percent. Soviet figures may even underestimate the extent of overmanning in industry, since decades of excess demand for labor may have fundamentally affected the perceptions ...
‎1991
9
Emerging Voices: Women in Contemporary Irish Society
At a very different level, attempts to tackle overmanning in semi-state organisations came about at least partly because of the apparent opportunities being offered to those countries who could meet the Maastricht criteria outlined by the EU.
Pat O'Connor, 1998
10
Model Building in Mathematical Programming
12.5.4. Overmanning. It is possible to employ up to 150 more workers over the whole company than are needed, but the extra costs per employee per year are as follows: Unskilled Semi-skilled Skilled £1500 £2000 £3000 ...
H. Paul Williams, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERMANNING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term overmanning is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Navy to double on-the-spot advancements for sailors
Moran said that overhaul was a move to save CAP authority, which was widely criticized for worsening the Navy's overmanning crisis. The first ... «NavyTimes.com, Jun 15»
2
Huge spot advancement expansion is underway
Indeed, manpower planners have blamed CAP for exacerbating overmanning problems, so Moran's reforms were a compromise that saved ... «NavyTimes.com, May 15»
3
Election 2015: Chester turnout could be as high as 70%
Those old jokes about local authority overmanning and inefficiency back in the 1970s have no meaning any more judging by the military ... «ChesterChronicle.co.uk, May 15»
4
CAP season, for enlisted spot promotions, opens July 1
Navy manpower planners blamed overmanning in many ratings on this spot promotion program and called for it to be eliminated. But Moran ... «NavyTimes.com, Apr 15»
5
Cees Bruggemans: The non-payment culture
In addition, the money collected or received by municipalities wasn't always wisely used, considering the overmanning, overpaying and over ... «BizNews, Apr 15»
6
Athens plots a daring escape from the troika
Greece certainly has too many over-regulated industries and outdated practices, and a long tradition of overmanning the public sector. «Financial Times, Feb 15»
7
San Diego State vs. BYU 2014 game preview: Aztecs look to tame …
Steve Fisher's squad opened the 2014-15 campaign with an impressive 79-58 win over Cal State Northridge, significantly overmanning the ... «Mountain West Connection, Nov 14»
8
Try explaining the Irish Water debacle to a Martian
We did not "pass on" waste to our customers by locking in restrictive practices and overmanning for 15 years - rather, we removed waste ... «Irish Independent, Nov 14»
9
Staff sergeant saved 50 jobs - but not his own
The retention boards are a central part of the Air Force's force management program, which is cutting the ranks to help it reduce overmanning ... «AirForceTimes.com, Nov 14»
10
Reward wharfies for boosting productivity at ports: ACCC
Nevertheless, there has been a general downward trend since the 1998 reforms that reduced overmanning and widened workplace flexibility. «The Australian, Oct 14»

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