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understaffed

[uhn-der-staft, -stahft]

adjective

  1. having an insufficient number of personnel.

    The hospital is understaffed.



understaffed

/ ˌʌԻəˈɑːڳ /

adjective

  1. not having enough staff

    her department is understaffed

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of understaffed1

First recorded in 1890–95; under- + staff 1 + -ed 3
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The patient’s family was awarded $1.29 million in arbitration this month after a judge found that the facility was severely understaffed at the time of her arrival and should not have admitted her.

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This has left the National Weather Service – NOAA's weather forecasting and hazard-warning branch – critically understaffed ahead of the hurricane season, several scientists told the BBC.

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California is now down to 5,500 locked beds and a bunch of overcrowded, understaffed, outdated jails and prisons that have become our de facto mental health treatment centers, along with the streets.

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Critics describe the prison as overcrowded and understaffed, with a culture of violence.

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“Even before Trump came in, our public parks were understaffed, from any way that you look at it,” he said.

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