undermanned adj : inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.; "they're rather short-handed at the moment"; "overcrowded and understaffed hospitals" [syn: short-handed, short-staffed, understaffed]

English

Adjective

1. Insufficiently manned; understaffed

bare-handed, beggarly, empty-handed, famished, half-starved, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished, on short commons, pauperized, poor, shorthanded, starved, starveling, starving, underfed, underhanded, undernourished, understaffed, unfed, unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied