Definition of understaffed
: inadequately staffed
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In the show, four first-year residents and their colleagues tended to patients in an understaffed, busy emergency room that lacks sufficient resources, creating a condition known as Code Black.
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The district detective units' are also understaffed.
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Even with current spending levels, both departments are understaffed and the city is asking residents to pass a sales tax increase to hire more cops and firefighters.
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But the Trump campaign was also understaffed and overstretched.
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Drip: Twelve years of hustling at a hectic pace in a private pulmonary and critical care practice covering three busy hospitals and intensive care units, packed emergency rooms, understaffed floors, and overworked staffs.
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The criticisms that Jackson and his administration have not moved quickly enough to hire resurfaced lately as council members complained that the police districts, particularly the 4th District on the East Side, the city's largest, are understaffed.
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The Chula Vista Police Department has been understaffed for nearly a decade.
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The division has been understaffed for at least the past nine years, according to the report, and upper level NYPD officials had ignored guidance from an earlier internal report to expand the division.
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First Known Use of understaffed
1891
UNDERSTAFFED Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of understaffed for English Language Learners
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: not having enough workers : having a staff that is too small
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