I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
overworked and underpaid
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Teachers are overworked and underpaid .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The company has been overworking its employees to try to keep up with demand.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Normally bubbly and animated, she had seemed tired and overworked.
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She had a special driver, who unlike some, cared for his horse and never overworked her.
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So she seemed to be doing alright, she seemed a little bit overworked.
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The overworked doctors learned to stop for a few minutes and nap, heads down on desks or tables.
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The young, the bold, the lowly paid and overworked, acknowledged him as their spiritual leader.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He literally killed himself with overwork .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In addition to the political prisoners, possibly another million and a half people died from starvation, disease or overwork .
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Most of the red-faced men are too spent from overwork and alcohol to be a problem.
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Now we couldn't complain of overwork .
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Sebastiana: I only suffer from overwork nervos.
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The choice between overwork and time does not exist at the individual level alone.
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The fear on colleges of ill consequences from overwork in such circumstances was not avoided.
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There are clinical-minded people who claim that the youngsters are just hysterical from overwork , but that of course is pure speculation.
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This is somewhat anti-social though, because if everyone did that the mail server would die of overwork .