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1811 D. Turner Let. 6 May in M. E. Mitchell Early Observ. Flora Southwest Ireland (1999) 49 The books for you, my dear Madam, are not yet gone..‘because of a foolish spirit of procrastination, which I strive to justify by calling it over-employment’.

1899 Cent. Mag. July 362/1 Why, when Stuart came back to America to paint the portrait of Washington..he should have waited two years before visiting Philadelphia, where the President resided, we do not know. It was not on account of over-employment in New York, for there are comparatively few portraits painted there by Stuart at that time.

1874 R. L. Stevenson in Cornhill Mag. Aug. 191 There is here [i.e. in Quatre Vingt Treize] a yet greater over-employment of conventional dialogue than in L'Homme qui Rit.

1908 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 18 209 We..can witness without manifest alarm the sacrifice of future to present prosperity by the over-employment of women and children.

1935 J. N. Burk & P. Hale Philip Hale's Boston Symphony Programme Notes 189 An overemployment of the wood-winds, used too often as solo instruments.

2000 M. P. Quirk & P. M. Fandt 2nd Lang. of Leadership ix. 103 Personality disorders are defined by rigid, continuous overemployment of a narrow set of problem-solving strategies.

1923 J. R. Commons in L. D. Edie Stabilization of Business iv. 166 A war will raise the peak higher and turn the trough down lower, but it does not seem to interfere very much with the rhythm of overemployment and unemployment.

1944 Times 9 Nov. 5/3 The dangers of inflation implicit in an attempt to secure ‘over-employment’ are real enough in any full employment policy.

2002 Prague Post (Nexis) 24 Apr. As for the current unemployment rate, Slovak Premier Mikulas Dzurinda blames continued overemployment during his predecessor Vladimir Meciar's term.