"warm body" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "2014 September 12, Jim Alampi, “How a Warm Body Sometimes Can Be Worse Than Nobody at All”, in Entrepreneur",
          "text": "So when leaders keep around C players (or the warm bodies), the result is almost always worse than having nobody for a short period of time.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 May 30, “Five Tips to Hire for Loyalty, Not Just a Warm Body”, in HR News Daily",
          "text": "Why just hire a warm body, when you can hire for loyalty?.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Any person who is present."
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        "(idiomatic) Any person who is present."
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see warm, body."
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          "body",
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      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "room meat"
        }
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
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            "plural"
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          "word": "bums in seats"
        }
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  "word": "warm body"
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          "ref": "2014 September 12, Jim Alampi, “How a Warm Body Sometimes Can Be Worse Than Nobody at All”, in Entrepreneur",
          "text": "So when leaders keep around C players (or the warm bodies), the result is almost always worse than having nobody for a short period of time.",
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        },
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        "Any person who is present."
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        "(idiomatic) Any person who is present."
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see warm, body."
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