Shorthanded

Adjective

 * 1) Lacking sufficient staff or people, as for normal or efficient operations.
 * The tiny restaurant usually got by with three workers on that shift, but found itself shorthanded when the tour bus pulled in.
 * 1)  Having fewer skaters on the ice during a play, as a result of a penalty.

Thesaurus
bare-handed, beggarly, empty-handed, famished, half-starved, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished, on short commons, pauperized, poor, short, starved, starveling, starving, underfed, underhanded, undermanned, undernourished, understaffed, unfed, unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied, wanting

Etymology
From short + hand + -ed.

Translations

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