0 used to describe an organization that does not have enough money, especially because it has not been given enough by a government: --
Cash-starved district health authorities are forced into deals with private health care companies to finance new buildings and equipment that they otherwise could not afford.
Had the funding not been raised, the cash-starved railroad would have shut down.
Highways are being detrunked and the financing is being transferred to cash-starved county councils, which are already putting up council tax by more than three times the rate of inflation.
That fails to recognise the way in which the transport authorities are cash-starved by central government and are unable to take on a role of that kind.
They are suggesting that they have no responsibility whatever in these matters and it is the cash-starved local authorities which should pick up the burdens all the time.
They want to pretend that the poor, the homeless and the cash-starved schools and hospitals do not exist.
We consider it scandalous that practices can make £190,000 or £280,000 in profit from fund holding when cash-starved hospitals are freezing waiting lists.
It is a two-tier system with profit-led care for the haves and an inferior cash-starved service for the have-nots.
