short-handed
Missing enough help
Short-handed means lacking the usual or necessary number of workers or players: We're short-handed today because two people called in sick.
In hockey, a team is short-handed when a penalty leaves them with fewer players on the ice than their opponent.
Also spelled shorthanded.
Insufficient personnel available
- vacanciesUnfilled positions available
- shortfallFailure to reach quota
- overworkedLaboring beyond healthy limits
- hiringGiving someone work
recruiting · turnover · insufficient · inadequate · deficit · shortage · sparse · unfilled
Defeated by sheer volume
- overworkedLaboring beyond healthy limits
- stretchedPulled to lengthen
- overburdenedCarrying more than manageable
- taxedHad levy imposed
overextended · pressured · stressed · exhausted · fatigued · burnout · swamped · juggling
undermanned
Insufficient personnel available
- vacanciesUnfilled positions available
- shortfallFailure to reach quota
- overworkedLaboring beyond healthy limits
hiring · recruiting · turnover · insufficient · inadequate · deficit · shortage · sparse · unfilled · bare-bones
overwhelmed
Defeated by sheer volume
- overworkedLaboring beyond healthy limits
- stretchedPulled to lengthen
- overburdenedCarrying more than manageable
taxed · overextended · pressured · stressed · exhausted · fatigued · burnout · swamped · juggling · scrambling
- hockeypuck, hockey, ice hockey, pucks, field hockey
- ___-handed wordsbackhanded, offhanded, underhanded, ambidextrous
- staffingstaffing, turnover rates, hiring, staffing firm, staffing agency
- staffing problemsvacancies, shortage, turnover, layoffs, attrition
- unreadyunprepared, ill-prepared, ill-equipped, unready, not ready