Inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.
1Mr Chaplow said while more officers might help, they were not short-staffed.
2We're short-staffed, and no one else is available to do this today.
3The same nurse said: We're so short-staffed that patient care is compromised.
4Adkins said his unit was short-staffed and needed Manning's analysis work.
5England, avoiding leniency against short-staffed opposition, struck again four minutes later.
6Better hurry, though, or you're going to be short-staffed next week.
7We're short-staffed right now and could really use the help.
8Should she have given up when social services were too short-staffed to take over?
9But I also know how short-staffed you are right now.
10When Szczupak arrived at Belle Terre in June 2012, the facility was still short-staffed.
11Didn't you tell me that you're short-staffed in the kitchen? Father Francis inquired innocently.
12He said Kaitaia police had been short-staffed for years.
13The Supreme Court order was necessary to give the notoriously short-staffed sheriff's office a nudge.
14Sequester cuts may also leave them short-staffed for emergencies.
15And I imagine you'll be short-staffed for a while.
16Through the night, Pelz was aware that the ward was short-staffed-severalnurses were out sick.