Meanings of chronically short in English

We're chronically short on repair staff and staff supervisors down here.

Stones more than soldiers were pressed to this purpose as Outremer was chronically short of men.

Lucy said, They're chronically short of nurses.

She was responding to reports that the lead agencies responsible for prosecuting financial crime are chronically short of resources.

Unfortunately, maintaining quality while steadily increasing quantity leaves us chronically short of teaching staff, especially in the Tactical curriculum.

Until that is all set in stone no more money will flow to Athens, leaving it chronically short of cash.

The new government is chronically short of cash as the euro zone keeps the pressure on for an acceptable reform programme.

This would provide a means of paying for food and medicine that, after seven-plus years of UN sanctions, are in chronically short supply.

Like most enterprises mounted by governments and institutions on Nyvan, the Jesup asteroid was chronically short of finance, engineering resources, and qualified personnel.

The Star Empire is running chronically short of their fast attack and heavy assault transports, and the ones in service are worked hard.

There was no discernible, definitive gameplan to go about beating the Italians, and they were chronically short of variation and again lacked intensity.

With the World Cup looming, Healy is chronically short of game time following an operation to his neck at the end of last season.

The project, he explained, would be in a region chronically short on reliable electricity, where some major resources and industrial projects would need boosted power.

The umpires took an extra half-hour before lunch but India, bedraggled, embarrassed and chronically short of ideas could not summon the breakthrough until the resumption.