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understaffed

/uhn-der-staft, -stahft/US // ˌʌn dərˈstæft, -ˈstɑft //UK // (ˌʌndəˈstɑːft) //

人员不足,人手不足,工作人员不足,人员不足的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having an insufficient number of personnel: The hospital is understaffed.

Examples

  • The day-to-day delivery of shots, without reinforcements, will play out at understaffed clinics, overwhelmed pharmacies and beleaguered long-term care facilities.

  • VA hospitals are understaffed—just before the pandemic, the VA reported 43,000 staff vacancies out of more than 400,000 health care staff positions.

  • The cumbersome boxes are more difficult to sort than paper mail, and stressed the Postal Service’s already understaffed operations.

  • A pandemic coupled with record numbers of mail-in ballots means that local election offices will both be understaffed and overextended.

  • At the same time, it’s clear that some problems—PPE shortages, the pace of vaccine development, understaffed hospitals—are beyond the ability of any one person to fix.

  • Fve pending nominees call Arizona home, all of whom were designated “judicial emergencies” to serve on understaffed courts.

  • Abu Muhammadeen, one of the surgeons, said the hospital is critically understaffed.

  • Some stores are understaffed, and “that causes a poor experience for the customer.”

  • When those entities were underfunded, understaffed, and marginalized, it encouraged an anything-goes environment.

  • The police forces are understaffed, insufficiently trained, and ill-equipped.

  • The estate was understaffed, underfinanced, and the repairs were always in arrear.

  • But I will say that according to other institutions, that this institution was also understaffed.

  • The hotel people are so dreadfully understaffed just now--this war!

  • As a result, they are too few in number and are seriously understaffed, making shopping a time-consuming and frustrating activity.

  • She says the school is understaffed and that the governors have consented to her obtaining some extra assistance.