short-handed Betydning & definition

Eksempler på short-handed

• To-day garages are short-handed because they cannot get the type of really efficient garage foreman that they must have.

• The company state that to open waiting-rooms would necessitate the provision of a staff which, as they are short-handed, they are unable to supply.

• They make extra demands on the police, who are already short-handed.

• But that seems to indicate a considerable amount of efficiency, notwithstanding that the inspectors are somewhat short-handed.

• It is that our police have been working short-handed.

• It is because of its remarkable recruiting that frequently it has been able to lend squadrons to other cavalry regiments which are short-handed.

• Under the present system they have to coal this ship and that ship, and they are short-handed to begin with.

• So short-handed are some of the squadrons that leave entitlements cannot be fulfilled.