undermanned
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ænd
Verb
[edit]undermanned
- simple past and past participle of underman
Adjective
[edit]undermanned (comparative more undermanned, superlative most undermanned)
- Insufficiently manned; understaffed.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 9:
- Two months afterwards he was reported fit for duty, but, in spite of the fact that he was urgently needed to help an undermanned Commission stagger through a deficit, he preferred to die; vowing at the last that he was hag-ridden.