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0 If a company or organization is short-handed, it does not have the usual or necessary number of workers:
Some hospitals are so short-handed that doctors have to work 20-hour shifts.
1 not having the usual or necessary number of workers:
We’ve got two people out sick so we’re short-handed today.
2 not having the usual or necessary number of workers:
The industry heads into this crucial period shorthanded due to a paperwork problem.
leave sb short-handed The state's crackdown on illegal immigration has left farmers short-handed.
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