What is "understrength"

Usage examples of "understrength".

I have one of six overstrength legions, and Quintus Lutatius has one of six very understrength legions.

Warden, who had been praying fervently some office or other would find some outfit or other overstrength or understrength, looked up at Mazzioli sagely when he found it.

LibProgs might point to the Treaty of Valkha and fifty years of peace, but Howard Anderson knew better than most that when something went wrong it usually did so with dispatch, and Battle Fleet was twenty percent understrength for its peacetime obligations.

Remember, they think your army is demoralized and inefficient and understrength and underequipped and all that.

The understrength fighter squadrons from the Tabby battleships and battlecruisers raced towards the gunboats as well, and fireballs pocked the Bug formation.

Even with understrength regiments, McNeil and Arbuckle would have that leading enemy regiment outnumbered, without enough room for the Arkansans to bring their other regiment into play very quickly or easily.

That's despite the fact that it's been more understrength than any of the other platoons for most of the time he's been running it, and half of his NCOs are either acting in a grade above their ranks or are lance corporals acting as corporals.

On one wall hung an artists rendition of the Battle of New Reading that had taken place in 2253, where an understrength Marine infantry division had succeeded in holding off an entire army trying to force a strategic pass in the Gondular Mountains.

Unfortunately, as McGinley had just implied, her understrength squadron kicked the numbers to deploy multiple units ahead without unacceptably weakening the close-in escort.

Unfortunately, as McGinley had just implied, her understrength squadron lacked the numbers to deploy multiple units ahead without unacceptably weakening the close-in escort.

Emotions would probably be running high among their platoonmates, and Nawa would be understrength without Lakshindo, anyway.