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The tiny restaurant usually got by with three workers on that shift, but found itself shorthanded when the tour bus pulled in.
b) Having fewer skaters on the ice during a play, as a result of a penalty.
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shorthanded — short‧hand‧ed [ˌʆɔːtˈhændd ǁ ˌʆɔːrt ] adjective HUMAN RESOURCES having fewer workers or helpers than you need: • We ll be shorthanded next month as five of my staff will be on holiday … Financial and business terms
shorthanded — {adj.} Understaffed; short on workers. * /With several employees gone for the holiday weekend and two dozen people in line, the rent a car agency suddenly found itself terribly shorthanded./ … Dictionary of American idioms
shorthanded — {adj.} Understaffed; short on workers. * /With several employees gone for the holiday weekend and two dozen people in line, the rent a car agency suddenly found itself terribly shorthanded./ … Dictionary of American idioms
shorthanded — adj Understaffed; short on workers. With several employees gone for the holiday weekend and two dozen people in line, the rent a car agency suddenly found itself terribly shorthanded … Словарь американских идиом
shorthanded — adjective having fewer helpers or workers than you need: We ll be shorthanded next month as five of my staff will be on holiday … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
shorthanded — /ˌʃɔ:t hændɪd/ adjective without enough staff ● We’re rather shorthanded at the moment … Marketing dictionary in english
shorthanded — adjective Date: 1794 having, working with, or done with fewer than the regular or necessary number of people … New Collegiate Dictionary
shorthanded — Synonyms and related words: bare handed, beggarly, empty handed, famished, half starved, ill off, ill equipped, ill furnished, ill provided, impoverished, on short commons, pauperized, poor, short, starved, starveling, starving, underfed,… … Moby Thesaurus
shorthanded — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. understaffed, short. See insufficiency. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Lacking the requisite workers or players: undermanned. See EXCESS … English dictionary for students
shorthanded — short|hand|ed [ˌʃo:tˈhændıd US ˌʃo:rt ] adj having fewer helpers or workers than you need = ↑short staffed … Dictionary of contemporary English
