Synonyms for understaffed
ˌʌn dərˈstæft, -ˈstɑftun·der·staffed

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1. short-handed, short-staffed, undermanned, understaffedadjective

   inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.

   "they're rather short-handed at the moment"; "overcrowded and understaffed hospitals"

   Synonyms:
   short-staffed, undermanned, short-handed

   Antonyms:
   equal, adequate

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1. Joe Sullivan:

   Like most police departments, Philadelphia is having a very hard time recruiting new applicants, we’ve seen a mass exodus of officers to early retirement and transferring laterally to other police departments, so the police department is severely understaffed right now, meaning there’s also very little proactive policing going on.

2. Jason Chaffetz:

   The fundamental problem is that they are still understaffed by nearly 1,000 agents, and the consequence is the people that are there have to work more hours than they ever should be scheduled to work, you don’t want an agent who’s been on the job for 12 hours a day for 30 days in a row standing guard on the president—that’s not good for anyone.

3. Jason Chaffetz:

   This was supposed to be a one-time recognition of a problem that still hasn’t been fixed and that is that they are dramatically understaffed.

4. Ona Onyia:

   Our desire to help triumphed our fears, seeing how understaffed and overwhelmed New York hospitals were, we wanted to help as best as we can and learn so we can help New York hospitals back home if things got out of control.

5. Seth Galanter:

   It’s a very surface level fix that certainly will make that particular parent happy, but isn’t fulfilling OCR’s obligation, oCR is underfunded and understaffed and in order to get through all the complaints in some kind of timely manner, staff is being forced to give them superficial treatment.