adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
overworked and underpaid
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Teachers are overworked and underpaid .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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overworked teachers
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I'd been six months without any holiday, and I was tired and overworked .
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Teachers often complain that they are overworked and underpaid.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But overworked officers at Dover had managed to inspect only 2,000 of the 2 million lorries which passed through Dover last year.
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He immersed himself in parish work and made himself indispensable to the overworked parish priest.
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It can be a different matter where staff are overworked and underpaid and still expected to smile constantly.
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Our empty shipyards can not refurbish our cruise liners to the same time-scale as overworked but competitive foreign yards.
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The accident unit was manned by overworked junior medical staff.
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The cuckoo's cavernous red gape may be irresistible to the overworked foster parents.
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They are cheerful, competent, overworked and understaffed.