understaffed

/uhn-der-staft, -stahft/US // ˌʌn dərˈstæft, -ˈstɑft //UK // (ˌʌndəˈstɑːft) //

人员不足,人手不足,工作人员不足,人员不足的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : having an insufficient number of personnel: The hospital is understaffed.

Examples

The day-to-day delivery of shots, without reinforcements, will play out at understaffed clinics, overwhelmed pharmacies and beleaguered long-term care facilities.
VA hospitals are understaffed—just before the pandemic, the VA reported 43,000 staff vacancies out of more than 400,000 health care staff positions.
The cumbersome boxes are more difficult to sort than paper mail, and stressed the Postal Service’s already understaffed operations.
A pandemic coupled with record numbers of mail-in ballots means that local election offices will both be understaffed and overextended.
At the same time, it’s clear that some problems—PPE shortages, the pace of vaccine development, understaffed hospitals—are beyond the ability of any one person to fix.
Fve pending nominees call Arizona home, all of whom were designated “judicial emergencies” to serve on understaffed courts.
Abu Muhammadeen, one of the surgeons, said the hospital is critically understaffed.
Some stores are understaffed, and “that causes a poor experience for the customer.”
When those entities were underfunded, understaffed, and marginalized, it encouraged an anything-goes environment.
The police forces are understaffed, insufficiently trained, and ill-equipped.
The estate was understaffed, underfinanced, and the repairs were always in arrear.
But I will say that according to other institutions, that this institution was also understaffed.
The hotel people are so dreadfully understaffed just now--this war!
As a result, they are too few in number and are seriously understaffed, making shopping a time-consuming and frustrating activity.
She says the school is understaffed and that the governors have consented to her obtaining some extra assistance.

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Examples

The day-to-day delivery of shots, without reinforcements, will play out at understaffed clinics, overwhelmed pharmacies and beleaguered long-term care facilities.

VA hospitals are understaffed—just before the pandemic, the VA reported 43,000 staff vacancies out of more than 400,000 health care staff positions.

The cumbersome boxes are more difficult to sort than paper mail, and stressed the Postal Service’s already understaffed operations.

A pandemic coupled with record numbers of mail-in ballots means that local election offices will both be understaffed and overextended.

At the same time, it’s clear that some problems—PPE shortages, the pace of vaccine development, understaffed hospitals—are beyond the ability of any one person to fix.

Fve pending nominees call Arizona home, all of whom were designated “judicial emergencies” to serve on understaffed courts.

Abu Muhammadeen, one of the surgeons, said the hospital is critically understaffed.

Some stores are understaffed, and “that causes a poor experience for the customer.”

When those entities were underfunded, understaffed, and marginalized, it encouraged an anything-goes environment.

The police forces are understaffed, insufficiently trained, and ill-equipped.

The estate was understaffed, underfinanced, and the repairs were always in arrear.

But I will say that according to other institutions, that this institution was also understaffed.

The hotel people are so dreadfully understaffed just now--this war!

As a result, they are too few in number and are seriously understaffed, making shopping a time-consuming and frustrating activity.

She says the school is understaffed and that the governors have consented to her obtaining some extra assistance.