Similar words: shorts, taffeta, staff, distaff, pikestaff, chief of staff, short, shorten. Meaning: adj. inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc..
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1. We're so short-staffed. I can't just walk out.
2. We're very short-staffed at the moment.
3. We're very short-staffed in the office this week.
4. The hospital is desperately short-staffed.
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5. But some hospitals are short-staffed, and their patients complain of feeling neglected.
6. The nursing home is so short-staffed that most nurses are working 12 hours a day.
7. We're short-staffed here - the summer holiday period's started and everyone's stretched.
8. Similarly, branches may be short-staffed thereby increasing loading and unloading times.
9. Hospitals are decades out of date, short-staffed and filthy.
10. We're short-staffed and everybody is under the gun.
11. We're short-staffed at the moment as two of our team are on block release.
12. The Ministry of Magic's Muggle Liaison Office was short-staffed[Sentencedict.com], and no one had read the Muggle newspapers all that week.
13. Sometimes they're short-staffed and can't find anyone to wheel you back right away.
14. The firm's credit policy group is weak and short-staffed and its analysts are "bullied" by managers who override their decisions to generate revenue, Kolchinsky said in the testimony.
15. He added: "The other consequence is that if loads of staff go off with swine flu that will leave us short-staffed, which is dangerous to patients.
16. With the economic downturn, there's been a fresh boom across the country in volunteer cadres of citizens taking on some of the routine duties of short-staffed police departments.
17. Giving employees time for open-ended ideas can be expensive, especially with many companies short-staffed, but it may pay off.
18. In the recent recession, thousands worked more hours than they wanted to, because they felt insecure or because the boss was short-staffed .
19. Thin trading made for a lackluster day on Wall Street, with desks short-staffed before the Memorial Day holiday that will keep U. S. markets closed on Monday.
20. The U. N. report said China's regulatory agencies are often underfunded and short-staffed, sometimes so significantly that they are unable to carry out their assignments.
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