Short-handed

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Short-handed \Short`-hand"ed\, a.
     Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or
     helpers.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "shorthanded":
     bare-handed, beggarly, empty-handed, famished, half-starved,
     ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished,
     on short commons, pauperized, poor, short, starved, starveling,
     starving, underfed, underhanded, undermanned, undernourished,
     understaffed, unfed, unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied,
     wanting