粵

冗jung2員jyun4

simp冗员
jung2 jyun4rǒng yuán

English

  1. excess personnel; superfluous staff
  2. surplus staff; deadwood

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 組織入面辦事能力低而只會造成負擔嘅成員(量詞:個)

Examples

  • 呢間公司冗員眾多,冇咩可能唔執笠。

    There is too much deadwood in this company, it is only going to collapse upon itself.

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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