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人浮于事
rén​fú​yú​shì

overstaffed

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
人浮于事 人浮於事 rén​fú​yú​shì
overstaffed
(idiom) more people than work available; redundant personnel

Frequency

Written text
0.492 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 人浮于食 rén​fú​yú​shí

Synonym

  • 粥少僧多 zhōu​shǎo​sēng​duō
  • 僧多粥少 sēng​duō​zhōu​shǎo

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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