undermanned

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ænd

Verb

undermanned

1. simple past and past participle of underman

Adjective

undermanned (comparative more undermanned, superlative most undermanned)

1. Insufficiently manned; understaffed.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 9:

     Two months afterwards he was reported fit for duty, but, in spite of the fact that he was urgently needed to help an undermanned Commission stagger through a deficit, he preferred to die; vowing at the last that he was hag-ridden.