undermanned

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

undermanned
    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}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Undermanned \Un`der*manned"\, a. (Naut.)
   Insufficiently furnished with men; short-handed.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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