undermanned
uhn der mand
- s inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.
- For Germany, a 3-2 winner over an undermanned, overachieving Turkish side, the road to the final has been studded with mediocrity.
- I count 28 musicians listed in the program, but the orchestra sounded both undermanned and overmiked, sometimes drowning out the singers; in a couple of the early numbers, I couldn .
- With one signature, the president has added 4,000 bodies to the work rolls of the country's undermanned and underfunded prisons department.