Understaffed

2 definitions found

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]:

  understaffed
       adj : 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}]