overhire

English

Alternative forms

• over-hire

Etymology

over- +‎ hire

Verb

overhire (third-person singular simple present overhires, present participle overhiring, simple past and past participle overhired)

1. (intransitive) To hire too many employees.
   • 2009 April 8, Claire Cain Miller, “Start-Up Gets Course in Survival”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2022 June 14, David Yaffe-Bellany, Erin Griffith, quoting Brian Armstrong, “‘The Music Has Stopped’: Crypto Firms Quake as Prices Fall”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

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