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Definition: OVERWORKED |
OVERWORKEDImperative & past participle1. Of Overwork |
Date "OVERWORKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Crosswords: OVERWORKED |
| Specialty definitions using "OVERWORKED": Overworked Expressions. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The overworked lambs go on strike. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In response to the extra demands placed on it by PPH, the heart muscle gets bigger, and the right ventricle expands in size. Overworked and enlarged, the right ventricle gradually becomes weak and loses its ability to pump enough blood to the lungs. (references) | |
Business | Once a patient reaches the front of a line, he or she frequently faces surly, overworked, underpaid, and unhelpful medical staff. (references) | |
Children | Turkmenistan | During the year, the number of teachers in the country was reduced by 10,000 as in accordance with a presidential decree in 2000. Educators were concerned that this exacerbated the problems of already crowded classrooms and overworked teachers, and further reduced the quality of education in the country. (references) |
Economic History | Nepal | An overworked and inefficient banking system is to blame. (references) |
Eq. Guinea | Electricity is available in Equatorial Guinea's larger towns thanks to three small overworked hydropower facilities and a number of aged generators. (references) | |
Political Economy | South Africa | The SAPS continued its major restructuring and transformation from a primarily public order security force to a more accountable, community service-oriented police force; however, it remained ill-equipped, overworked, and undertrained. (references) |
Worker Rights | Uganda | There was strong evidence that prison officials hired out prisoners to work on private farms and construction sites, where often they were overworked. (references) |
Egypt | Many of these children are abused, overworked, and exposed to potentially hazardous conditions by their employers, and the restrictions in the Child Law have not improved conditions due to lax enforcement on the part of the Government. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dominick Dunne | Well, I mean shocked with delight, I have to tell you, because I mean, you know, I always think that the defendant who gets the million dollar lawyer is going to beat the local, overworked, underpaid prosecutor, but it didn't work out that way this time. |
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| "OVERWORKED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 45.10% of the time. "OVERWORKED" is used about 102 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 45.1% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 31.37% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 20.59% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.94% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 102 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "OVERWORKED": be overworked. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
overworked | 12 |
the overworked american | 7 |
employee overworked | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "OVERWORKED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منهك (dog tired, dogsbody, exhausted, exhausting, grueling, haggard, overfatigued, overstrained, overtaxed, overtired, run down, tired, tiring, toilsome, toil-worn, weary, worn out), مرهق (arduous, burdened, dog tired, exacting, exhausted, exhausting, fatigued, fatiguing, grueling, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressed, oppressive, overtaxed, overtired, run down, strained, strenuous, stressed, tired, tiring, toil-worn, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary, worn, worn out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 瘁 (care-worn, distressed, sick, tired, weary), 工作过度. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | otřepaný (corny, hackneyed, jaded, outworn, platitudinous, stale, threadbare, trite, well worn), otřelý (corny, hackneyed), přepracovaný (jaded, overwrought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | overblandet mørtel (overworked compo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | doodgemengde cement (overworked compo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rasittua liiaksi (be overworked, overstrain oneself). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fatigué (overwrought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | überarbeitete sich. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρακουρασμένος (exhausted 2), παραδουλεμένος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | agyonhajszolt (overdone, to be hard driven). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | malta troppo lavorata (overworked compo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | overworkeday cimento excessivamente amassado (overworked compo). (various references) mortero excesivamente amasado (overworked compo). (various references) överarbetad (overwrought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "OVERWORKED" (pronounced ō'verwer"kt) |
| 4 | -w er" k t | reworked, worked. |
| 3 | -er" k t | irked, jerked, lurked, perked, shirked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-k-o-o-r-r-v-w" | |
-2 letters: overdoer, overdrew, overrode, overword, overwore, overwork, reworked. | |
-3 letters: redrove, revoked, revoker. | |
-4 letters: drover, evoked, evoker, overdo, overed, redrew, revoke, rewoke, reword, rework, rewove, rooked, worked, worker. | |
-5 letters: dower, drove, erode, erred, evoke, order, rewed, rodeo, roved, rover, rowed, rower, vowed, vower, wooed, wooer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 56 45 52 57 4F 52 4B 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ...- . .-. .--. --- .-. -.- . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001011 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O V E R W O R K E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0056 0045 0052 0057 004F 0052 004B 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)49563952574952453938 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arab, arabo, árabe, arabisk |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, chinês, chino, kinesisk |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, checo, tjeck |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | لغة الدانمركية, نوع كعك, دانماركي, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dán, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finn, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , nìmec, nìmecký, tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, 希腊语, 希臘語 , řek, řecký, řeètina, græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, grego, griego, grek |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , maïarský, maïarština, maïar, ungarer, Hongaarse, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, húngaro, ungrare |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italský, italština, ital, italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalský, portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | اللغة السويدية, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk |
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