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Definition of understaffed
: inadequately staffed
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Garder said the parks are already understaffed and that further layoffs could lead to reduced hour at visitor centers, longer lines at entrance stations, and elimination of family-friendly programs like campfire talks and nature walks.
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Sloan said the challenge now is finding enough nurses and doctors who specialize in geriatrics, which is a severely understaffed field.
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But demand has grown since then and city staff said the sanitation division is already strained and understaffed.
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An independent review ordered by Delaware’s governor after a deadly inmate riot describes the state’s maximum-security prison as dangerously overcrowded, critically understaffed, and poorly run and managed.
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But such confusion simply typified operations at the prison, which reviewers found to be dangerously overcrowded, critically understaffed, and poorly run and managed.
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State prisons in Florida are dangerously understaffed and often operate at critical capacity — meaning there are times when the prisons have only the bare minimum number of guards.
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Many primary care centers are understaffed or running out of space.
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Bertie Correctional Institution was understaffed the month that Sgt.
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First Known Use of understaffed
1891
UNDERSTAFFED Defined for English Language Learners
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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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