short-staffed in English

adjective

1

having too few or fewer than the usual number of staff.

we're rather short-staffed what with Christmas and everything

synonyms: understaffed, short-handed, undermanned, below strength

adjective

• understaffed, short-handed, undermanned, below strength
• short-handed, undermanned, understaffed

Use "short-staffed" in a sentence

1. The hospital is desperately short-staffed.

2. We're very short-staffed at the moment.

3. We're very short-staffed in the office this week.

4. I'm afraid we're desperately short staffed at the moment.

5. We're short-staffed and everybody is under the gun.

6. We're so short-staffed. I can't just walk out.

7. Hospitals are decades out of date, short-staffed and filthy.

8. We're so short-staffed. I can't just walk out.Sentence dictionary

9. We're short-staffed here - the summer holiday period's started and everyone's stretched.

10. Similarly, branches may be short-staffed thereby increasing loading and unloading times.

11. But some hospitals are short-staffed, and their patients complain of feeling neglected.

12. Sometimes they're short-staffed and can't find anyone to wheel you back right away.

13. We're short-staffed at the moment as two of our team are on block release.

14. The nursing home is so short-staffed that most nurses are working 12 hours a day.

15. 14 The nursing home is so short-staffed that most nurses are working 12 hours a day.

16. Giving employees time for open-ended ideas can be expensive, especially with many companies short-staffed, but it may pay off.

17. The Ministry of Magic's Muggle Liaison Office was short-staffed, and no one had read the Muggle newspapers all that week.

18. In the recent recession, thousands worked more hours than they wanted to, because they felt insecure or because the boss was short-staffed .

19. The U. N. report said China's regulatory agencies are often underfunded and short-staffed, sometimes so significantly that they are unable to carry out their assignments.

20. Thin trading made for a lackluster day on Wall Street, with desks short-staffed before the Memorial Day holiday that will keep U. S. markets closed on Monday.

21. With the economic downturn, there's been a fresh boom across the country in volunteer cadres of citizens taking on some of the routine duties of short-staffed police departments.

22. We're short-staffed right now, so all this work we've gotten lately is both a boon and a Bane See also: and, Bane, boon a boon or a Bane Something that is either good or bad