Found 2 items, similar to short-handed.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: short-handed short-handed adj : inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.; “they're rather short-handed at the moment”; “overcrowded and understaffed hospitals” [syn: short-staffed, undermanned, understaffed]
English → English (gcide) Definition: short-handed Underhanded \Un"der*hand`ed\, a. 1. Underhand; clandestine. [1913 Webster] 2. Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated; obsolete in this sense, short-handed or understaffed being the preferrred term. [1913 Webster +JG] Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]