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• s  inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.
  they're rather short-handed at the moment

• Nonetheless, intelligence community members claim that in 1978 the CIA was so short-handed it could not assign people to investigate two suspicious situations abroad.
• Teaching Temps provides staffing for the Crisis Nursery when they are short-handed.
• Landis wasn't going to be caught short-handed again he ate a ton on Wednesday night, and his teammates and he packed 70 water bottles for his miraculous Thursday trip.

• short-staffed
• undermanned
• understaffed

News & Articles

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• WIAA girls soccer: Undermanned Abes turn in gritty effort in quarterfinal loss
  MILWAUKEE — Short-handed, beat up and, in one case, bloody. Eau Claire Memorial gave everything it had to offer.
  June 14, 2013 - Leader-Telegram
• WJFW News
  RHINELANDER - Severe storms and construction during the summer often leave Wisconsin Public Service short-handed. Luckily summer also means college students are back in town, with time on their hands.
  June 14, 2013 - WJFW Rhinelander
• Antioch turns to service workers to help combat crime
  The city of Antioch is training sanitation and postal workers to help be the eyes and ears for the short-handed police department.
  June 13, 2013 - KGO-TV Bay Area

Quotes

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• Ben Howland in USA Today
  We were short-handed and got fatigued at the end,Howland said.
• Joe Girardi in SI.com
  It's part of the game. There's times you're going to be short-handed,Girardi said. "You've got to do the best you can. You get a guy who's maybe nicked up for three or four days and you don't necessarily want to DL him because then you...
• JP Dumont in Forbes
  It was a good point,Predators forward JP Dumont said. "We've been short-handed the whole road trip, but guys have showed a lot of character. I'm real happy with our team right now."