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Meaning of "short-staffed" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHORT-STAFFED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHORT-STAFFED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Short-Staffed is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SHORT-STAFFED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of short-staffed in the English dictionary

The definition of short-staffed in the dictionary is lacking an adequate number of staff, assistants, etc.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHORT-STAFFED

short-life
short-lived
short-order
short-range
short-sighted
short-sightedly
short-sightedness
short-sleeved
short-spined sea scorpion
short-spoken
short-stay
short-stay car park
short-tailed shearwater
short-tempered
short-term
short-term car park
short-term memory
short-termism
short-time working
short-waisted

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHORT-STAFFED

chuffed
coiffed
dischuffed
miffed
overstaffed
overstuffed
puffed
scuffed
seriffed
squiffed
staffed
stuffed
understaffed
unsnuffed
unstuffed

Synonyms and antonyms of short-staffed in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SHORT-STAFFED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «short-staffed» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of short-staffed

Translation of «short-staffed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHORT-STAFFED

Find out the translation of short-staffed to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of short-staffed from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «short-staffed» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

人手不足
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

poco personal
570 millions of speakers

English

short-staffed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लघु staffed
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

باختصار في الموظفين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

короткого укомплектованным
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

falta de pessoal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কর্মী-ঘাটতির
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

à court de personnel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kakitangan pendek
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

besetzt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

短期有人
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

짧은 한 로그인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cekak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thiếu nhân viên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குறுகிய பணியமர்த்தப்பட்ட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शॉर्ट-स्टॅफोर्ड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kısa kadrolu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

a corto di personale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

krótki obsadzona
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

короткого укомплектованим
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

scurt Resursele de personal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μικρής στελεχωμένο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kort beman
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kort-bemannad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bemannet av kort
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of short-staffed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHORT-STAFFED»

The term «short-staffed» is regularly used and occupies the 72.299 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHORT-STAFFED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about short-staffed

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHORT-STAFFED»

Discover the use of short-staffed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to short-staffed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ethical Challenges in Managed Care: A Casebook
For example, simply saying the unit was short-staffed and several patients went without pain medication is unlikely to result in an investigation. However, saying that a patient is now in a coma because the cardiac care unit was inadequately ...
Karen Grandstrand Gervais, 1999
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Speaking of Nursing--: Narratives of Practice, Research, ...
One unit was short of staff, using the hospital's own definitions and the other was adequately staffed, again using the hospital's own definitions. For the most frequently occuring DRGs, average inlier length of stay on the short staffed unit was 1 ...
Donna Diers, 2004
3
Relationship Between Staffing and Falls in a Nursing Home ...
Short Staffed No Count 63 12 75 % within short staffed 84 16 100 % of Total 34 7 41 Yes Count 87 22 109 % within short staffed 80 20 100 % of Total 47 12 59 Total Count 150 34 184 % within short staffed 82 18 100 % of Total 82 18 100 ...
Douglas A. Redman, 2008
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The Complete Restaurant Management Guide
How to Minimize the Problem of Starting a Shift Short Staffed There might be no worse feeling that being a manager of a shift where two or three employees don't show for a scheduled shift. Ultimately, the people bound to suffer the most are ...
Robert T. Gordon, Mark H. Brezinski, 1999
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The Shadows of Immobility: Low-wage Work, Single Mothers' ...
If Jill hadn't been willing to dedicate herself so wholeheartedly to the task - making ceaseless rounds of phone calls, staying late, working from home — the floors would have worked short-staffed a great deal more frequently than they did .
Kimberly A. Clum, 2008
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Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise ...
The goal is to work with the minimum amount of inventory necessary but still be safe for the patient. an example of one of the rocks—short-staffed Restaurants can provide another analogy for hospitals. Have you ever walked into a restaurant ...
Charles Protzman, George Mayzell, MD, Joyce Kerpchar, 2010
7
The Young Professional's Survival Guide: From Cab Fares to ...
I'd like to be able to grant your request for a day off, but we will be short-staffed that day already. I'd like to be able to grant your request for a day offand if we weren't short staffed that day already, I'd be able to do it. I'd like to be able to grant  ...
C. K. Gunsalus, 2012
8
Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us ...
... Resource,” www.aacn.nche.edu/media/shortageresource.htm (accessed June 1, 2008). 24 Center for Nursing Advocacy, “What Happens To Patients When Nurses Are Short-Staffed?” www.nursingadvocacy.org/faq/short-staffed.html.
Sandy Summers, Harry Summers, 2009
9
The Dynasties Within Uncensored, Cna's Please Engage Your ...
... much more hands on care, physical labors with the residents. I think the pay scale is ok, because I was told what the pay scale would be before I was hired. Question number eight: have you had to work short staffed on many occasions? Yes.
Tabitha K. Scaife, 2013
10
Human Factors Methods and Accident Analysis: Practical ...
Trying to get another staffmember at the time because we were short staffed, we had a couple ofsick leaves off... erm ... I would have been waitingfor quite a substantial time which would have been probably beyond the realms ofhow long the ...
Dr Laura Rafferty, Dr Daniel P Jenkins, Professor Neville A Stanton, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHORT-STAFFED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term short-staffed is used in the context of the following news items.
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MLB roundup: Phils edge short-staffed Jays
Andres Blanco's double in the fifth inning scored the winning run as the Philadelphia Phillies held on for a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday ... «TheChronicleHerald.ca, Jul 15»
2
PEI long-term facilities short-staffed because of nurse shortages
Two unions representing nurses in P.E.I. say government manors are facing a chronic nursing shortage, forcing current nurses to work extra hours and have ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
3
Lake Hallie Police Department short-staffed, need detective
Currently, Smokowicz said they have eight full-time patrol officers, but when it comes to investigators, the department is short-staffed. Smokowicz was unable to ... «WQOW TV News 18, Jul 15»
4
Guards at short-staffed prisons endure attacks
July Fourth was no holiday for a corrections officer at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. The officer had instructed Arthurio Morris to return to his cell, but ... «The Tennessean, Jul 15»
5
Rough justice: Lockdowns skyrocket at short-staffed Ontario jails
The province's crowded jails are so chronically short-staffed many have resorted to rolling lockdowns of several units at a time to compensate. Last year there ... «Globalnews.ca, Jul 15»
6
Short-staffed Dewsbury care home permanently shut by inspectors
A care home that was shut down by inspectors has been banned from re-opening. Care Quality Commission (CQC) officials raised “significant concerns” over ... «Huddersfield Examiner, Jun 15»
7
Customs acknowledges Logan is short-staffed
US Customs and Border Protection acknowledged Friday that it has too few agents to handle the surge of new international travelers into Logan Airport, many of ... «Boston Globe, Jun 15»
8
Blanco Co. caught short-staffed during flood, issued no emergency …
JOHNSON CITY, Texas (KXAN) -- Blanco County neighbors did not get the type of local emergency notification flood warnings others along the Blanco and San ... «KXAN.com, Jun 15»
9
Short-Staffed University City Has to Briefly Close Fire Station
UNIVERSITY CITY (KMOX) — Without enough staff to man the trucks, a firehouse in University City unexpectedly shut down Sunday for a brief time. «CBS Local, Jun 15»
10
Defence pay offer could leave military short-staffed: expert
The Abbott government is conducting a "brave experiment" by giving military personnel below-average pay rises that mean the Australian Defence Force could ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»

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