Crossword-Solution: SHORTHANDED
We have 9 clues for the answer “SHORTHANDED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| In need of stenographers | 1 answer |
| Needing more help | 1 answer |
| Without adequate help | 1 answer |
| Without enough staff | 1 answer |
| having, working with, or done with fewer than the regular or necessary number of people | 1 answer |
| inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc. | 1 answer |
| undermanned | 5 answers |
| understaffed | 5 answers |
| Wanting | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHORTHANDED (5)
There was a nasty outbreak of cholera at Nuddea, and the Bengal Government, being shorthanded, as usual, had borrowed a Surgeon from the Punjab.
Penfeather do lack for men--Mings says he counted but ten at most when they boarded him! Well, mates--what d'ye say?" "Ha, d'ye mean fight, Smiler? Fall on 'em by surprise and recapture the ship--ha?" "O bless my guts--no! Penfeather aren't to be caught so--not him! He'll ha' warped out from the anchorage by this! But he be shorthanded to work the vessel overseas, 'tis a-seekin' o' likely lads and prime sailor-men is Penfeather, and we sits on these yere sands.
Presently up to the lofty poop of the ship clambered a short, squat man in marvellous wide breeches and a great cutlass on hip, who clapping speaking-trumpet to mouth, roared amain: "Ahoy the shore! We be shorthanded.
For my own part, the many stories I had heard of ships striking at midnight upon unknown rocks, with all sail set, and a slumbering crew, often recurred to me, especially, as from the absence of discipline, and our being so shorthanded, the watches at night were careless in the extreme.
The head-station was very shorthanded in the absence of Ninnis and the stockmen, and Harris had been obliged to go out by himself on the man-hunt.
Quotes with SHORTHANDED (1)
In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1975–2009).