Crossword clues for shorthanded
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. 1 Lacking sufficient staff or people, as for normal or efficient operations. 2 Having less than a quorum. 3 (context team sports English) Having, or occurring during an interval with, fewer than a full complement of players, often as the result of a penalty. 4 (context poker of a table English) Having fewer than the standard number of players. adv. In a shorthanded manner.
Usage examples of "shorthanded".
The reason we were shorthanded was a blowdown that splintered two of the center poles on the main top and busted up a few of the sports on the guying out gang.
Getting goods on shore, but sickness makes both Planters and crew shorthanded.
That meant a kind of double betrayal, for somewhere, someone was going shorthanded, lacking the troops he needed to keep the peace because the Emperor had decided to abandon them here.
Frobisher had been shorthanded even before her fight with the chebecks, shorthanded long before she had commissioned at Portsmouth, and that, he thought, was due largely to her last captain’s indifference.
Even if she had to make no other detachments, that was going to leave her chronically shorthanded, and she could almost see the domino effect rippling towards her.
A couple of the deputies have quit, so you'd be shorthanded until some more can be hired, and the ones still there will resent the hell out of you because one of them wasn't appointed to finish out the sheriff's term.
Whatever the reason, it happens with sufficient frequency that a bribe case which is largely hopeless for the defendant is routinely shorthanded as `folding money in the men's room.
When they're shorthanded I fill in on Crusades, Magna Carta, 1066, and Agincourt.
There were days when I would gladly have sent you packing, with an efficiency report that would've put you ground-side forever, if I hadn't been so shorthanded, if I'd had enough experienced officers aboard to replace you with someone I could rely on.
There were days when I would gladly have sent you packing, with an efficiency report that wouldve put you groundside forever, if I hadnt been so shorthanded, if Id had enough experienced officers aboard to replace you with someone I could rely on.
But the Homicide Division was shorthanded, after three recent suspensions and several resignations, and it was unlikely that Gonzalez would be replaced.
Along with Oscar Pederson, the short, sturdily built brunette would be responsible for holding the fort here in Centauri, but the enormous warship tonnages already diverted to the fighting front, to various nodal reaction forces, and to bring Antonov's Second Fleet up to strength for "Operation Pesthouse" would leave her shorthanded.
It was bad luck that they didn't check that pasture, but Christabel's shorthanded and she's back at the vocational school full-time, too.