Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

short-staffed

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English

Syllables
short--staffed
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not having sufficient members of staff.

verb

simple past and past participle of short-staff

Inflected Forms

more short-staffed (comparative) most short-staffed (superlative)

Phrases

skeleton crew

Frequently Paired Words

skeleton crew

Synonyms

shorthanded understaffed undermanned short-handed

Questions

What does short-staffed mean?
Not having sufficient members of staff.

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