short-staffed Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˌʃɔːtˈstɑːft]
  • Us [ ˌʃɔːrtˈstæft]

Meaning of short-staffed In English

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Examples of short-staffed

  • At the same time, many areas are short-staffed.

  • Many hospitals are short-staffed and there are great demands upon female labour.

  • Is it fair to the existing nursing staff, to the doctors, but most of all to the patients, that the hospital is short-staffed?

  • At the sanatorium they liked him very much and were very anxious that he should go on their staff, as they were short-staffed.

  • I appeal to him to find a solution to enable these teachers to be brought back into a short-staffed profession.

  • But the fact remains that they are often short-staffed, and it is difficult for them to deal with these individual difficulties.

  • This was not because the unit had thought their case unworthy of attention, but because it was short-staffed.

  • Almost always it is short-staffed and the nurses are hard-pressed.

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