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Undermanned   Listen
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Undermanned  adj.  (Naut.) Insufficiently furnished with men; short-handed.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Undermanned" Quotes from Famous Books



... typography the First Folio is not to be commended. There are a great many contemporary folios of larger bulk far more neatly and correctly printed. It looks as though Jaggard's printing office were undermanned. The misprints are numerous and are especially conspicuous in the pagination. The sheets seem to have been worked off very slowly, and corrections were made while the press was working, so that the copies struck off later differ occasionally from the earlier ...
— A Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimiles • Sidney Lee

... and at Khartoum, the Smithsonian, Wistar, Carnegie and Rockefeller Institutes in the United States; the list of research institutes of important dimensions (excluding astronomical observatories) is, I believe, practically exhausted by the above enumeration, and many of them are woefully undermanned and underequipped. At least two of them, the Solvay Institute wholly, and the Frankfort Institute for Experimental Therapy in part, owe their existence and continuance to scientific men, Solvay and Ehrlich, who have contrived ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86



Words linked to "Undermanned" :   inadequate, short-handed, unequal, short-staffed



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