Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
short-staffed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The nursing home is so short-staffed that most nurses are working 12 hours a day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Similarly, branches may be short-staffed thereby increasing loading and unloading times.
▪ We're short-staffed here - the summer holiday period's started and everyone's stretched.
Wiktionary
short-staffed
a. Not having sufficient members of staff
WordNet
short-staffed
adj. inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.; "they're rather short-handed at the moment"; "overcrowded and understaffed hospitals" [syn: short-handed, undermanned, understaffed]
Usage examples of "short-staffed".
The building was short-staffed on weekends, Grisha said, only him, the receptionist and the passenger elevator man.
Right, said the voice from Ussel, a towaway truck will be sent during the afternoon, and he had better be ready waiting to guide the crew to the spot, because there was a lot of work on and everyone was short-staffed, what with a search going on for a while Italian sports car that the bigwigs in Paris wanted to have a look at.