0 If a shop, business, or organization is understaffed, it does not have enough employees:
The hospital was desperately understaffed.
1 not having enough employees:
The facility is chronically understaffed and short of supplies.
2 having fewer workers or employees than necessary:
We are understaffed and too reliant on contractors to provide us with personnel.
His conclusions - that we need the science, the continent is grossly understaffed, and that co-operation is crucial - are hardly a surprise.
The most serious concern is the delay caused by a seriously overburdened and understaffed judicial system.
The 180 rural health centers are understaffed and not functionally integrated with local hospitals.
Inefficient and understaffed party offices were, however, counterbalanced by the ' informal ' organizational response to mass politics, by which the author means above all the press.
Proponents of this approach would ask, for example, if some clinical departments are overworked and understaffed, prompting them to cut corners in coding and billing to save time.
Healthcare is provided free of charge through public (government-run) clinics and hospitals, but these institutions are generally understaffed, overcrowded, and inefficient, and many have a reputation for providing substandard care.
They should not allow themselves to be hijacked by underfunded and understaffed head teachers as part-time, unpaid, untrained extra teachers.
The refugee arrivals project does its best, but it is understaffed and has great difficulty providing an adequate service.
