'Short-handed' definitions:
Definition of 'short-handed'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.; "they're rather short-handed at the moment"; "overcrowded and understaffed hospitals" [syn: short-handed, short- staffed, undermanned, understaffed]
Definition of 'Short-handed'
From: GCIDE
- Short-handed \Short`-hand"ed\, a. Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'short-handed'
From: GCIDE
- Underhanded \Un"der*hand`ed\, a.
- 1. Underhand; clandestine. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated; obsolete in this sense, short-handed or understaffed being the preferrred term. [1913 Webster +JG]
- Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]