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short-staffed

adjective

  1. lacking an adequate number of staff, assistants, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Confronted with public outcry — and grave warnings that iconic national parks such as Yosemite and the Grand Canyon might be too short-staffed to safely operate — the Trump administration reversed course last week.

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The short-staffed department has ended up spending millions on overtime — and potentially putting it on the hook for costlier future payouts.

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Midwives said the maternity unit was still "consistently dangerously short-staffed" and that they went into work every day fearful they would be involved in a case like Naomi's.

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Attorneys for the Probation Department argued in legal filings that the state’s inspectors were “demonstrably incorrect” in their finding that the juvenile hall was dangerously short-staffed.

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Rebeca Gonzalez got the call no retail worker wants on a weekend they’re scheduled off — the store was short-staffed and her manager needed her to come in for a few hours.

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