What's the difference between overwork and strive?

Overwork


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.
  • (v. t.) To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor.
  • (v. t.) To decorate all over.
  • (v. t.) To work too much, or beyond one's strength.
  • (n.) Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The removal of financial penalties for trusts that overwork their doctors would see us lose our only safeguard against unsafe rotas.
  • (2) The few nurses who remain are exhausted, overworked and demoralised.
  • (3) The Spaniard’s challenge had been wild and right in front of the overworked official, Craig Pawson.
  • (4) GPs are overworked and intensely frustrated that they do not have enough time to spend with their patients, especially the increasing numbers of older people with multiple and complex problems who need specialised care.” Most of the GPs who said they would retire were over the age of 50.
  • (5) Japanese Nurses are overworked and underpaid; many of them leave the profession at about age 25 and get married.
  • (6) The global economic crisis means there are millions out of work or underemployed while increasing numbers are overworked and struggling to balance work and family life.
  • (7) The need to protect physicians-in-training from overwork raises issues not only of pragmatism, but also of morality and professionalism.
  • (8) Overwork, ie, working beyond one's endurance and recuperative capacities, may be a hazard in certain personality types engaged in open-ended occupations.
  • (9) They also cited concerns about the state executing inmates before appeals were complete and argued that Taylor’s original trial attorney was so overworked that she encouraged him to plead guilty.
  • (10) Psychosocial factors (overwork, stress, worry) were the most frequently cited causes of MI, with smoking and being overweight or overeating the most frequently cited physical causes.
  • (11) These aging-like changes seem to occur earlier in chronically stressed, overenlarged, and overworked motor units.
  • (12) With respect to work, four themes emerged: medical routine, patient centered care, overwork and isolation.
  • (13) The public backs the doctors, with 62% of the population believing they are overworked and giving that as the biggest cause of medical compensation cases .
  • (14) Belinda Phipps, chief executive of the NCT, the childbirth and parenting charity, said: "Midwives are being overworked, maternity units are understaffed and as a result parents are suffering."
  • (15) Meanwhile, Guardian Money has also received an unsigned letter from a group of staff at John Lewis’s London head office that makes allegations about overworked and unmotivated employees.
  • (16) Its impedance keeps the perilymph motion within a physiological acoustic amplitude quantum level unless the movements are so excessive as in barotrauma and acoustic trauma which would have overworked even the annular ligament of a normal footplate.
  • (17) Responses indicated that rural GPs were significantly more overworked, had less opportunity for continuing education, had poorer medical facilities, and had less adequate schools for their children than urban GPs.
  • (18) Hands up, though, who wants to be tended to by an overworked, stressed junior doctor with low morale?
  • (19) A “perfect storm” is brewing in General Practice as recruitment continues to fall and overworked seniors take early retirement.
  • (20) Many GPs are so inundated with demands for appointments that they can no longer guarantee to treat patients safely, according to a survey which found that overworked family doctors were feeling increasingly stressed.

Strive


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.
  • (v. i.) To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.
  • (v. i.) To vie; to compete; to be a rival.
  • (n.) An effort; a striving.
  • (n.) Strife; contention.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is stated, that it is impossible to strive to effectively control the smoking habit neither by way of the consulting hours for smokers nor by means of the 5-days-plans.
  • (2) "I am doing the best for my child, helping her strive towards her dreams.
  • (3) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
  • (4) Day by day we strive to unmask all the lies told to citizens.
  • (5) Refusing either to acquiesce in, or to rail at, Eliot's contempt for Jews, one strives to do justice to the many injustices Eliot does to Jews.
  • (6) We have strived to take a systemic approach to the study of the structure, function, and regulation of adenosine receptors and the transmembrane signalling processes that they activate.
  • (7) The question of German leadership, however, gets mixed up with a second, yet different question: Does all of this also mean that Berlin strives for a "German Europe"?
  • (8) A leading academic, Prof Robert Bea, from the engineering faculty at the University of California in Berkeley, who made a special study of the Deepwater Horizon accident , has raised new concerns that the recent slump in oil prices could compromise safety across the industry as oil producers strive to cut costs.
  • (9) The mental health professional can strive to influence future public policy as patient advocate and nonpartisan educator.
  • (10) By participation we mean one's identification of his ego with a person(s), an object, or a symbolic construct outside himself, and his striving to lose his separate identity by fusion with this other object or symbol.
  • (11) Six lessons emerge from our analysis: Expect reform models to change over time; strive for predictability and continuity in the reform; encourage behavior changes through the use of incentives; use special administrative or political channels to simplify the reform; expect reform models to converge over time; and implementation difficulties can be predicted.
  • (12) Increasing positive motivation to treatment: striving to alleviate pain caused by decayed tooth, realization of aims not related to health, cultural aspects.
  • (13) A variation of this model was tested in a study of the separate as well as interactive effects of daily life events and personal strivings on psychological and physical well-being.
  • (14) Achieving a natural inframammary fold in the reconstructed breast is a challenging but essential aspect of the excellent result for which we strive.
  • (15) Justin Welby said that it was “a tragedy” that hunger still existed in the UK in the 21st century and praised the work of charity food banks which he said were “striving to make life bearable for people who are going hungry”.
  • (16) Correlations were determined for male (n = 225) and female (n = 242) college students between sets of undesirable personality traits (anxiety, stress reactivity, anger, and alienation) and desirable personality traits (instrumentality, achievement strivings, and optimism measured by the Scheier-Carver [1987] Life Orientation Test), and a series of outcome variables related to health (self-reported health complaints and health maintenance behaviors and beliefs) and academic performance (academic expectations and actual grade point average).
  • (17) Clegg echoed the sentiment as he insisted the government would constantly strive to do more to promote growth, as well as reducing debt, but warned that voters should not expect quick results.
  • (18) Thanks to this the barorecptors of the aortic arch strive to maintain a high level of the arterial pressure and provide for a stabilization of hypertension.
  • (19) The physician, however, should constantly strive to improve the quality of life that will result from the means put at his disposal.
  • (20) PROBLEMS ARISE WHEN MORPHOLOGIC TERMINOLOGY FALLS INTO CATEGORIES WHICH: (1) Utilize numbers to replace words and (2) utilize words of such indeterminate meaning that definition depends entirely upon local usage.We should strive to replace any means of diagnosis that does not convey specificity with means capable of precision.

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