Synonyms for short-handed
- adjective
Most common
Definitions
- adj. 1
Lacking sufficient staff or people, as for normal or efficient operations.
The tiny restaurant usually got by with three workers on that shift, but found itself shorthanded when the tour bus pulled in.
Related words
- Other spellings
- short handed shorthanded
Example sentences
- understaffed Police districts are chronically understaffed.
- undermanned We're also seriously undermanned.
By length
- 11 letters
- undermanned3
- 12 letters
- understaffed3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (undermanned3 = 3 syllables).