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Definition of understaffed adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

understaffed

adjective

NAmE//ˌʌndərˈstæft//

[not usually before noun]

not having enough people working and therefore not able to function well synonym undermanned We're very understaffed at the moment. opposite overstaffed

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