Usually means: Insufficient employees to meet demands.
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  1. short-staffed: Merriam-Webster
  2. short-staffed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. short-staffed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. short-staffed, short-staffed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. short-staffed: Vocabulary.com
  6. short-staffed: Wordnik
  7. short-staffed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. short-staffed: Wiktionary
  9. short-staffed: Dictionary.com
  10. short-staffed: Rhymezone
  11. short-staffed: FreeDictionary.org
  12. short-staffed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. short-staffed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Not having sufficient members of staff.

Similar:
understaffed, inadequate, undermanned, short-handed, shorthanded, short handed, weak-handed, short, unstaffed, light-handed, more...

Opposite:
fully staffed, adequately staffed, well-staffed

Types:
understaffed, undermanned, under-resourced, under-equipped, under-funded, under-supported, more...

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Similar:
understaffed, inadequate, undermanned, short-handed, shorthanded, short handed, weak-handed, short, unstaffed, light-handed, more...

Opposite:
fully staffed, adequately staffed, well-staffed

Types:
understaffed, undermanned, under-resourced, under-equipped, under-funded, under-supported, more...



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