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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.;
- Example: "they're rather short-handed at the moment"
- Example: "overcrowded and understaffed hospitals"
[syn: short-handed, short-staffed, undermanned, understaffed]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Underhanded \Un"der*hand`ed\, a. 1. Underhand; clandestine. [1913 Webster] 2. Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated; obsolete in this sense, short-handed or understaffed being the preferrred term. [1913 Webster +JG] Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

understaffed adj 1: inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.; "they're rather short-handed at the moment"; "overcrowded and understaffed hospitals" [syn: short-handed, short- staffed, undermanned, understaffed]